Dis had deliberately changed into formal attire that day, because this was an important day for his grandson. Though it was neither a wedding nor an engagement, both engagements and weddings were really just formalities once everything had been arranged.
Today was for making those arrangements.
He tried his best to appear a little more amiable, and he did indeed make the effort, so he took the initiative to offer a greeting:
Hello.
As for Mrs. Jenny immediately kneeling and returning his greeting with honorifics, that was her own choice, though hardly an unexpected one.
In the current atmosphere,
the one seated in the chair, the one perched on a shoulder, and the one seated on the floor all found it perfectly natural.
Because,
this study was not a circle of prospective in-laws, nor a circle of old family friends, but... a Church World circle.
Under the rules of this circle,
those who sat were supposed to sit; those who knelt were supposed to kneel.
Puer continued examining this great-great-great-great... all right, this niece-in-law who had one fewer "great" than that niece of hers.
Her looks were passable.
But strictly speaking, she was not part of the Church World, though she certainly knew about its affairs.
To display her ancestral dignity, Puer had even made a point of grooming her fur in the bathroom after Kallen left to fetch their guests;
yet now, she suddenly found it all rather pointless.
If she had previously been acting on instinct, considering things purely from the standpoint of the family's symbolic figurehead, now a trace of anger suddenly rose within her.
After all, blood ties aside, she had lived with the Immerlis Family far, far longer than she had lived with her own family;
besides, even speaking of blood ties... she was a