Gifts Must Be Presentable

Flower Soap and Flower Brew clearly could not serve as the main gifts; they would be far too beneath Liszt's standing. After all, he was now the Viscount of Black Horse Island, a mid-ranking noble.

Besides, the one getting married was his cousin, with whom he was very close.

Specialties, food, and resources—these were basically the three kinds of gifts nobles exchanged in this era.

"Flower Town's specialties consist of fine food, Flower Soap, and Flower Brew. I'll definitely need to select plenty of all three. As for resources, I can give a few small Black Pearls, along with some jade, crystal, and mithril. The total value of these gifts should be enough to convey my sentiments."

Nobles were lavish in their dealings, especially great nobles.

Liszt felt rather helpless, but he had no choice but to give gifts, and they could not seem shabby either. He could only reluctantly take out a batch of resources. "If I don't get married for a long time, I probably won't have any chance to get these gifts back... Courtesy demands reciprocity, but it seems I won't have many opportunities to receive gifts."

As a bachelor, he had neither weddings nor funerals to attend for himself, nor any chance to celebrate a longevity birthday. At most, he could celebrate an ordinary birthday.

Having thought it through.

He told the butler, "Mr. Carter, I'll prepare a batch of precious gifts myself. Help me select the supplementary gifts—preferably some novel specialties, mainly food."

"Very good, my lord."

That more or less settled the matter of the gifts. Spending lavishly was inevitable, but Liszt was quite willing to bear the expense. Meiopal had treated him well, for one thing, and Marquis Merlin's gift to him alone was worth repaying—the copy of the Sword Saint's Handbook was