She had never believed that the boy who could overwhelm her Water God Style swordsmanship had died in that disaster.
This trip to the Sword Sanctum would let her find out whether it was true...
But if he really was alive, this old woman probably didn't have long to live... She wondered whether young Cain still remembered their promise...
Reida, the Water God, smiled wryly and closed her eyes to rest. It was a long journey ahead...
A month later...
"What?! Rudeus and Sylphiette are getting married?!"
At Cain's villa in the Three Magic Nations.
Everyone gathered around the table looked at Rudeus and Sylphiette, whose faces were red to their ears. Their expressions varied.
"But Rudeus is still a minor, isn't he? Is this really okay?" Cain asked first, sitting at the head of the table beside Roxy with his arms crossed.
"That doesn't really matter, does it? There's no law against minors getting married, right, Cain?"
Cain's mouth twitched. He felt like the kid was taking a jab at him...
With a sigh, Cain nodded.
"True, there's no explicit rule against it. It just doesn't feel quite right..."
After all, Cain himself had waited until adulthood to marry Roxy.
"To be honest, we've already slept together... So I want to give Sylphiette a home..."
Rudeus scratched his blond hair as he spoke. Beside him, Sylphiette flushed all the way to the tips of her ears, her elven ears twitching up and down. Holding hands, they faced the family's stares like schoolchildren caught doing something wrong.
"I see... Then..."
"Congratulations on your marriage, Rudeus, Sylphiette."
Seeing the pleading look on Rudeus's face, Cain nodded and offered his blessing with a faint smile.
Knowing Rudeus, he was probably afraid something might go wrong if he waited. He was the