Chapter 229: Having a clingy fiancé is better than having an ignorant one, right?
"When is the trial?"
I asked while Natha finally got his breakfast. We were still in the office, because to show that life would still go on, the Lord should still be working. But Natha didn’t let me go back to the quarters or visit Izzi in the research tower.
He wanted me there, with him, period.
"New Year," Natha replied dryly.
"What, on the New Year?!" Arta yelled in flabbergastion. "Are they crazy?!"
Natha shook his head and swallowed the food in his mouth before replying. "The last day of the festival."
"Festival?" I took a grape from Natha’s fruit bowl and popped it in my mouth. There would be another festival? I tried to remember the realm’s calendar. "Ah...the blessing?"
It wasn’t exactly a festival in the sense that there would be loud noises and colorful decorations and parties and all that merriment we had in the summer. It was more solemn, where everyone would offer a prayer to the Demon God and receive His blessing in the Temples. It would be followed by a community banquet where they ate together with the neighbors and everyone. The citizens used this time to go back to their homeland because it was a three-day national holiday.
Natha nodded and pushed the fruit bowl in front of me because I kept stealing his fruit. "It’ll be on the third day, after I put off the beacon in the main Temple."
"Okay, that’s good," I nodded and continued to snack on Natha’s fruit. Jade also came jumping on the table to peck on some small berries that made its beak colorful too.
"Why is that good?" Arta tilted her head, looking at me with a mix of confusion and annoyance.