Chapter 261: Someone New
Abel felt his annoyance rising at what he just heard. While he didn’t mind Taro not being present, the fact that the reason for it was the fact that the man was getting to be wed just didn’t sit right with him. Sure, he was happy for the man, but for him to have such a convenient excuse to not be present while he himself had to be the one to arrange the flow of the trial kind of made him feel overworked.
He had his own wedding to deal with too! Why was he the one saddled with taking care of both the trial and the clean up of the whole thing?!
"You do realize that I have my own wedding to plan, right?" Abel pointed out.
"Well, clearly it’s going smoothly since you’re still here," Fritz chuckled as he teased. "Unlike Taro and his sudden marking of his now-fiancee, you’re still relatively free to do whatever you want."
Abel wanted to speak out against such an assumption, but he couldn’t help but concede to that fact. While there was still much more to be done, his own wedding plans were proceeding smoothly. And while his own wedding just got superseded by Taro’s whirlwind wedding, he at least had some preparation for it unlike the other man himself.
"I’m still a bit miffed that his wedding’s going to happen before mine," Abel shrugged. "But I’ll give that to him. At least I don’t have to deal with the Queen’s wrath due to prematurely marking one of her precious ladies-in-waiting."
"That’s just called being smart," Fritz stated with a chuckle. "You had the opportunity to go through the proper means of courting one of her ladies. Meanwhile, Taro just went and marked one of them without even so much as a warning."
"They both got swept up by their emotions, I suppose," Abel muttered. "I don’t blame them, but it’s still stupid."
"Right? It’s much better to do things properly to avoid the headache of stepping over other people’s toes," Fritz readily agreed.