Though things had gotten rather awkward for a while, with Lidas personally apologizing, the matter was considered settled.
At least, that was what she herself claimed.
"I-I only apologized for disrupting the engagement banquet! I never acknowledged the engagement itself!"
The Goddess of Fate said this indignantly.
It seemed this Goddess still found it utterly unacceptable that the Blessing Bearer she doted on was getting married.
Rather than a mother worried her daughter had married the wrong man, she was more like a willful little sister worried her older sister was being snatched away.
So Shien blurted out a remark without thinking.
"You're obviously the oldest woman in this world, yet your temper is about the same as a child's."
Those words dealt Lidas a far greater blow than Shien had imagined.
"The oldest woman in this world... oldest woman... oldest woman..."
Lidas immediately shut down, crouching in the corner of the side hall and becoming completely unable to get back up.
"How could you say that?"
At that moment, even Roxie couldn't stand to watch any longer.
There was no helping it.
"You idiot, don't you know that age is something you must never bring up with a woman?"
Even Sera suddenly switched sides and began laying into Shien.
Anima, too, could only keep smiling wryly.
Aiyi muttered, "I'd rather you all treated me as a slightly older woman."
Lilith seemed not to understand what was happening, but she could tell that Lidas no longer posed a threat to Shien. She thus threw herself into Shien's arms and rubbed against his chest, refusing to leave.
As for Anxi, seeing that the situation had not worsened, he unconsciously wiped the sweat streaming down his forehead. It was easy to imagine just how tense he had been.
It was not that