My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 236: Proposal

Chapter 236: Proposal

After we made our entrance to the main hall and walked down the stairs, people from different parts of the world started to approach us with greetings.

I thought that they were all trying to speak to Melina, but some of them seemed genuinely interested in me after the rumors of my students dominating in the World Tournament got around.

At one point, however, the nobles that gathered around me dispersed when a few guests loudly stated they wanted to talk with me.

Upon hearing the woman’s voice, I turned around and saw Empress Lysandra and her sister, who had an aura that scared everyone around them.

Walking along with them, the sultan of Aridonia, Harun, was smiling and waving at me.

And if it wasn’t enough to have two royal families looking for me, King Dente and Queen Garra from Kalusia were also present and walking in my direction.

During our conversation, I could hear people whispering to each other about how they had never seen someone get the attention of every monarch on the continent.

’Well, when they put it like that, it does sound quite impressive...’ I thought.

Seeing that all the royal families from the continent were gathered in the same place, I took the opportunity to tell them about the magic quartz I had created, which could easily teleport people between continents.

The reason why I told them was because I wanted each nation to have its own magic quartz that could teleport them to any other country in the world.

It wasn’t something that anyone could use, but I believed that it would greatly improve the relations of countries around the entire world.

The main problem was that we would need Kyotora’s cooperation, which wasn’t something we should have expected, considering I still didn’t trust the king.

Nonetheless, I wanted them to be aware of its existence as I was determined to get the crystals done. Even if Kyotora didn’t want to cooperate, then I would just find the quartz some other way.

Later, during the ceremony, the time for Melina’s first dance arrived as the musicians played a delightful, slow tune.

I gently extended my arm, letting the princess pose her soft hand on top of mine, and guided her to the dance floor.

Luckily, I was somewhat decent at dancing since my wife forced me to go to a few dancing lessons with her before we got married in our past life.

Melina, however, was the absolute star of the dance. Her dress and hair flowed with every movement and spin, leaving everyone in awe.

She was graceful and elegant, and the fact that every single eye in the party was fixed on us was a testament to her beauty.

After the first dance was over, she shared one with her dad and one with her brother, as it was the tradition of the Sephyr Kingdom.

Funnily enough, I danced with the queen after, which made the guests at the party whisper to each other, saying that if the queen had asked me to dance, it was because she had accepted me as her daughter’s partner.

As the party continued, the guests kept dancing all night long while eating and drinking.

At some point, I noticed that Melina was starting to feel uncomfortable with her heels, so I asked her to come with me and went to one of the gardens neighboring the party hall.

There, we sat down on a bench in front of a fountain, and I kneeled before her as I gently took off her shoes.

Melina blushed at first, wondering out loud what I was going to do.

"Your feet hurt, right? You’ve never liked wearing high heels..." I said carefreely.

"Hmmm, have I ever worn high heels with you?" she asked, looking confused.

Then, it dawned on me. This was the first time in our new lives that I saw Melina wearing high heels.

In our past lives, she hated them, so my brain was just saying whatever came to it first.

"Uhh, I was just guessing, you know?" I replied awkwardly as I retrieved a healing potion from my void pocket.

Not wanting to drench her feet with the substance, I applied a few drops to the blisters on her ankles and smeared it gently with my finger.

Once it was fully healed up, I put her shoes back on and saved the rest of the potion inside my void pocket.

At the same time, I used a bit of sleight-of-hand to pull out the box with the ring without her noticing.

Melina was still flustered by how I had treated her blisters, and as I sat down beside her on the bench, I placed my hand with the box next to hers.

Snapping out of her awkwardness, the princess looked down at the box and gave me a slight smile that was incredibly beautiful to me.

"Another music box!?" she enthusiastically asked.

I chuckled. "Not exactly..." I replied, opening the box in front of her and showcasing the ring that Dhormec made for us—an adamantite ring covered in a thin layer of gold and three yellow diamonds set on top of it.

"Mel, I would like to spend the rest of my life with you..." I said, locking my eyes with hers.

"Will you marry me?" ’Again...’

The question hung in the air for a few seconds as Melina kept staring at me with a soft gaze and blushing cheeks.

With teary eyes, she softly held my face with both her hands, and I felt a warm energy coursing through my body.

Her eyes and smile shined beautifully under the moonlight in the garden, and as she kept on holding my cheeks, she spoke up.

"Yes, Ichi. I would love to spend the rest of our lives together..." she said, giving me a peck on the lips.

At that moment, I noticed how everything had gone almost exactly like in our past lives.

I didn’t realize it when I was saying it, but the words that came out when I proposed were the same ones I said back then.

To top it all off, her answer was also the same, making me blink a few times to adjust my sight as her appearance briefly looked like her past self.