Chapter 290 - 282. A Certain Special Day
It was great that Abel chose a venue with a basement parking lot because Bassena and Zein could come inside the building fairly undetected. Abel even sent one of the wedding organizer staff to fetch them, so they could come through the more discreet hallways.
Just like their inn, the venue had a polished old aesthetic to it. The hall where the ceremony and the reception would be held looked like an ancient palace, and even the staff wore a somewhat traditional-looking garb.
Zein used to think a wedding reception was just another kind of party, but that was obviously because he had never gone to one. In the red-zone, people didn’t really care whether you were married or not, but you could register your relationship with the Landlord. Rarely, there would be a wedding ceremony, but the ’reception’ was usually a simple banquet—and by ’banquet’, it meant the one who held it would provide the guest with a single meal of bread, soup, and meat.
Still fairly nice, the kids loved them wedding banquet.
But he had learned that wedding in the higher zone was a serious business.
"I heard there’s something special about the date," Zein muttered while they walked through a corridor overlooking a beautifully kept garden. It was the kind with stones and water, and had this tranquil vibe about it.
Bassena looked at his commlink to check. "Ah, today?"
"Yeah," Zein had overheard it from the guides who were talking about it while giggling. "You know what it is?"
"...ah, so you don’t know," Bassena looked at Zein, once again being reminded that Zein was blind about the custom of the higher zone. "Well, it’s something from the Old Era. Apparently, they celebrated something called Valentine’s Day?"
That sounded foreign to Zein—but then again, almost everything sounded foreign to him. "What kind of day was that?"
"It seems like a day when people professed their love with gifts, typically chocolate or flowers, if I’m not mistaken," Bassena said, and it gave Zein an explanation of why there was a spike of chocolate pieces in the guide’s pantry, and why there was a lot of chocolate variation drinks in the coffee house downstairs. "You have to ask Reina for that, I’m not really sure."