Going to a Hot Pot Restaurant

Akasaka sat kneeling on the tatami, preparing to have a proper discussion with his mother-in-law about serious matters.

His mother-in-law gripped the cup in her hands tightly, her sweaty palms betraying her nerves. She even accidentally knocked over her teacup onto the table, spilling water everywhere.

Embarrassed, she hurriedly took out a rag to wipe the table.

Ichinose Honami also stood up to help.

Akasaka was genuinely speechless now.

Could they even have a proper conversation like this?

Before long, the table had been wiped clean.

Both sides sat back down on the tatami.

Ichinose's mother sat especially upright, as though the man before her were some great figure...

Though he truly was a great figure.

The Prime Minister of Japan was important enough, wasn't he?

And the man before her was exactly that...

Akasaka first took a sip of tea. He did not want to make things difficult for his mother-in-law either. He had come intending to have a proper talk, but this mother-in-law of his seemed to have imagined him as far too sinister.

She thought Ichinose Honami had been forced into this.

Akasaka truly did not know how to explain himself.

He had really only come to discuss their marriage...

Ichinose Honami went to her mother's side and patiently explained things to her for a long while. She made it clear that she was not being forced to be with him because of his status, but because she genuinely liked him.

They liked each other, so she asked her mother to stop overthinking things.

Ichinose's mother wore a complicated expression, but she reluctantly accepted her daughter's explanation and began to properly look at the Prime Minister of Japan before her—her own son-in-law.

She first glanced at her daughter, Ichinose Honami, then looked at Akasaka and said, "Isn't