Chapter 59 : Our First Fight?
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“Okaaay!~ Who will be the representative to sign the contract?~♪ And how long are you guys going to rent the house for?~”
When we arrived at the agency, Ari-san immediately set up the paperwork for us and asked who will be the representative between the four of us to sign the paperwork.
“I will do it. We will move out of the house as soon as our house is finished. How long do you think it’s going to take?”
Of course Fer-san would be the representative.
Fer-san had completely become our representative for anything related to contract and paperwork.
We were sitting in the same room we used to talk about our requirements and specifications.
There was a low table with two sofas.
I wanted to give the seat to either Chris-san or Sig-san but they insisted I should be the one to sit on the sofa with Fer-san.
Since the two of them didn’t show any sign of giving up, I hesitantly sat down beside Fer-san while both Chris-san and Sig-san stood behind us.
We also had decided the plot of land we wanted to buy.
The land was only 2 blocks away from our rented house and the land was pretty big too.
I couldn’t help but to think whether it was alright to decide to buy something this luxurious this quickly?
“Let me see.. Since we’ve already decided the basic layout of the house.. For a house and land of that size.. I guesssss.. Roughly.. It will take aroundddd one month?~♪”
“Eh!? That’s so fast! Are you sure?!”
One month?!
I didn’t think you’d even be able to finish the foundation for the house that fast!
“Not really?~ I mean, we’re going to use magic to construct the house after all so one month is kinda to be expected, you know~” Ari-san replied in her usual sing-song voice. Her twinkling eyes blinked curiously at my surprised expression.
I see..
Certainly if we used magic, we wouldn’t need heavy equipment for construction like in earth.
But still..
I didn’t expect you would be able to cut down the time that much!
“One month huh.. Well since we’re going to go to the capital in august, we need to make sure the construction will be able to start before august then?” Chris-san said.
“You’re right. Since we don’t know how long we will have to stay in the royal capital. I think it’d be best if we can start before we leave for the capital.”
“On august, hm?~ Today is 27th June and the house will roughly finish in one month~♪ I will introduce you to the contractor I know, okay?~ ♪They will certainly make a beautiful house for you!~”
The capital, huh..
If possible, I wanted to properly greet everyone’s family before our marriage when we go to the royal capital.
Even if we got married before then, I still wanted to meet their family!
I should talk about this with them after this.
“I’ve filled all the forms. With this, I believe there won’t be any problem, right?”
“Wow~ Let me confirm it for a bit~ Hmm~ ♪ Yup!~ No problem at all!~ So when will you guys move into the house? Do you want to move in on July? Since today is already 27th of June anyway~♪”
“Then we will move in on 1st of July. Will that be fine?” Fer-san asked.
“Yup!~ ♪Of course it will~” Ari-san assured.
“That sounds good.” Sig-san nodded.
Both Chris-san and Sig-san who were standing behind us nodded their approval while Fer-san was discussing things with Ari-san.
“Then please proceed with the contract for 1st of July. I think… We’re going to rent it for about 3 months, perhaps?” Fer-san said.
“Okay~ I will prepare the short term contract for renting the house for you then~♪ The rent period will start from 1st of July~♪ Please prepare the deposit needed to rent the house~”
“Ah, we have to pay the deposit now, huh. [Come out, Card]. Here you go.”
I took out the guild card since this was definitely part of our household expenses.
“Thank you~ I will take the card as the payment then~ Help me with the payment please~” Ari-san went to the nearby desk where another male staff was sitting at and gave him the card to process the payment.
“Do we need to come here every month to pay the rent?” I asked.
“Umm~ That would be troublesome~ ♪Ren-kyun and the others are adventurers after all ~ There’s no guarantee you will stay at Pedrell all the time since you will need to go outside to finish the quest, right?~ I will prepare another form for you so we can have the payment to be automatically debited from your guild card~♪”
I thought we had to come here every month to pay the rent but turned out they already had an auto-debet system in this world?!
Whoa.. I wonder what other functions this guild card had..
“Then please proceed with the automatic payment then. Ah but, I still can’t write the alphabet of Alsar yet..”
Now that I think about it…
Up until now, I never paid any attention to learning the alphabet in this world because I didn’t have any problem in speaking or reading the letter.
But it was very irresponsible of me to forget learning such a crucial thing..
“Ah then we can have other people write it down for you. It’s okay~ ♪ Ren-kyun you will only need to sign the paper afterwards~”
Fer-san received the form and started to fill the paper for us.
“Here you go, Ren-kun. Please put your signature here.”
“Thank you very much.. Umm.. Can you also please teach me the alphabet later for me?” I took the paper that Fer-san held for me and asked him whether he’d be fine in teaching me the alphabet of this world.
“Of course, leave it to me. I think between all of us, I’m the most suited to teach you.” Fer-san nodded his head while laughing gently.
Well I also agreed that Fer-san seemed to be the most suitable to be a teacher between all of my fiances.
Come to think of it, now my name was Ren Himukya Cleva.
I usually wrote the kanji of my japanese name as my signature up until now.
Hmm.. I guess for now I should sign the contract using the kanji of my japanese name as well.
“Okay I’ve signed it. Will that be all?”
I returned the contract back to Ali-san when the previous male staff came with my guild card.
“Yup! Here’s your card~ You can start moving in on the 1st of July then~”
Now that I think about it.. I didn’t know how much we had to pay for the rent yet!
“Fer-san, I’m sorry but I think I missed it when Ali-san told us the price of the rent. How much did we have to pay exactly?” I whispered to Fer-san who was sitting beside me.
I think I might’ve missed it when Fer-san and Ali-san had talked about the rent.
“Ah, it’s 400.000 elk.”
“400-! I see.. Thank you, Fer-san.”
Back in Japan the rent for a 1 LDK apartment was about 40.000 yen so the rent price for this house was 10 times the price I usually had to pay for my 1 LDK apartment!
Although to be fair, I didn’t know the price range of the estate market in this world so I didn’t know whether 400.000 was too expensive or not..
“Okay then!~ You guys want to buy that plot of land, right? If there’s no doubt, I want to proceed with the payment now. Do you want to take a loan for it?~” Ali-san asked.
Ah so in Alsar we also had a loan system for buying real estate huh.
“No, we’re going to pay it all upfront. [Come out, Card]. Here’s my card.” Fer-san immediately pulled out his guild card nonchalantly and gave it to Ali-san.
Huh? W-we’re going to buy the land with cash?!
“Ho~ As expected from an A-rank adventurer! Fer-kyun, you’re going to pay the land by yourself?~”
“Yes. I will pay for the land since Chris and Sig will be in charge of paying for the building and the furniture.”
“E-eh? When did we decide on that?” I asked.
Somehow they had decided on something crucial like this without discussing it with me first?!
“We talked about it after we had finished the discussion about the engagement cuff~ Ren-chan was still having lunch so while we were waiting for Ren-chan we decided to discuss it~ The land and everything will be under Ren-chan’s name too~” Chris-san explained.
“Why didn’t I have to pay for anything at all?! Please don’t decide on such important things without discussing it with me too!”
Of course this wasn’t the first time they decided on something without consulting it with me first but I just couldn’t let this one slide!
Furthermore, the deed was under my name?!
I didn’t even have to pay a penny at all!
Could I really call myself their lover when I basically gave zero contribution?
If we are going to be a family then we should’ve discussed important things like this together!
I was really upset that my voice came out rougher than I intended to be.
Because I raised my voice so suddenly like that, everyone in the store was looking at us.
Chris-san and the others looked bewildered too which didn’t surprise me since it was the first time I ever raised my voice at them.
“Ah.. I’m sorry for yelling like that.. I will go cool off my head for a moment.. Pardon me..”
I couldn’t stand the tension so I immediately ran out of the store.
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Ferdinand’s POV
“W-wait! Ren-kyun?! Oi! You guys! You’re not going to chase after him?!”
“Ren-kun.. Yelled at us..”
“Huh?!”
It was my first time seeing Ren-kun become angry like that.
The three of us were so flabbergasted that we didn’t react immediately even when Ren-kun ran away with teary eyes.
Ren-kun must be close to crying..
“What? You guys have never fought with Ren-kyun before?”
“Sort of. Ren usually acts very calm and gentle so it was our first time seeing Ren raised his voice like that and as far as we know, we never make Ren upset either…. Oi! We have to chase after Ren!”
Yes, Ren-kun always smiled gently and acted reserved even though we always told him to never hold himself back.
To think we made the calm and gentle Ren-kun so upset like that…!
“Waaaait a minute! My excellent staff already went after Ren-kyun so you guys don’t have to worry about him. For now, I want you guys to sit down and tell me exactly what happened!”
Sig was about to run after Ren-kun but Ali immediately stopped him with an exasperated expression on her face.
Ali usually acted all bubbly but this time, she looked so serious and calm.
She told us to sit down first and tell her what happened but..
I wonder from where did we have to start..
“Uwaaah… What should we do? Ren-chan.. He looks close to crying! We don’t have time for this! We have to run after Ren-chan quickly!~”
Chris was confused and close to panic but Ali cut him off and said,”Really.. You guys.. Did you guys decide on all of this without consulting with Ren-kyun first?”
Ali-san sighed and continued,” Did I hit the mark? I think you guys must’ve decided on something without discussing with him first and overwhelmed him.”
Discussion?
With the exception of me, Chris and Sig inclined their head to the side.
The three of us didn’t quite understand what Ali talked about.
“Listen here, Ren-kyun is an otherworlder so he must have different common sense and value compared to us. And you guys decided to marry him without understanding first what kind of value he had been raised with all these time?If you guys don’t communicate with him properly, you are going to be divorced in the blink of an eye you know?”
I couldn’t contain the shock on my face when Ali mentioned the word ‘divorce’.
We haven’t gotten married yet but we are going to be divorced already even though Ren-kun was so precious to us?!
“Especially about the house. I know you guys are loaded so you might not know this but people usually only buy a house once in a lifetime. During my time working as a real estate agent, I’ve had my fair share of seeing married couples fight over various things when buying a house. And here you guys. Suddenly you bought a land and planned on building a house there under Ren-kyun’s name without consulting with him first! Do you really think he will take it all with a stride?!”
Certainly.. She was right..
While it may be true that Ren-kun didn’t know about the norm in Alsar, we did decide things without consulting him first.
We couldn’t marry him when we had communication problems like this..
I didn’t know what Chris and Sig were thinking but they also silently listened to Ali.
“Well~ I take it you guys understand it now, right? Ren-kyun might look young but he’s a proper adult, you know? You shouldn’t brush him off like that. You have to discuss things properly with him, you know? So after you apologize to him, you guys have to talk about everything properly with him, okay? Well~ Ren-kyun has already signed the contract for renting the house and paid the rent for one month so you guys can just move in according to your plan but I’m holding the contract for the land on reserve until you guys finished talking with Ren-kyun! If by one week you guys aren’t able to come in agreement, I will sell the land to someone else!”
“Yeah~ Ari, thank you~ We will talk properly with Ren-chan..”
“We will be going first.”
“See you later.”
And with that, the three of us went out of Ali’s store to chase after Ren-kun.
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“So? Do you guys have any idea where Ren ran off to?”
“I wonder where~ Maybe he went to the guild? Or to his home?~”
“I think we have no choice but to separate and look for Ren-kun by ourselves.”
We could’ve waited for Ali’s staff but we just couldn’t wait anymore.
Ren-kun usually always went with the flow but our dispute this time was serious enough for him to get angry for.
We had to look for Ren-kun now!
Chapter 59 : Our First Fight?
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“Okaaay!~ Who will be the representative to sign the contract?~♪ And how long are you guys going to rent the house for?~”
When we arrived at the agency, Ari-san immediately set up the paperwork for us and asked who will be the representative between the four of us to sign the paperwork.
“I will do it. We will move out of the house as soon as our house is finished. How long do you think it’s going to take?”
Of course Fer-san would be the representative.
Fer-san had completely become our representative for anything related to contract and paperwork.
We were sitting in the same room we used to talk about our requirements and specifications.
There was a low table with two sofas.
I wanted to give the seat to either Chris-san or Sig-san but they insisted I should be the one to sit on the sofa with Fer-san.
Since the two of them didn’t show any sign of giving up, I hesitantly sat down beside Fer-san while both Chris-san and Sig-san stood behind us.
We also had decided the plot of land we wanted to buy.
The land was only 2 blocks away from our rented house and the land was pretty big too.
I couldn’t help but to think whether it was alright to decide to buy something this luxurious this quickly?
“Let me see.. Since we’ve already decided the basic layout of the house.. For a house and land of that size.. I guesssss.. Roughly.. It will take aroundddd one month?~♪”
“Eh!? That’s so fast! Are you sure?!”
One month?!
I didn’t think you’d even be able to finish the foundation for the house that fast!
“Not really?~ I mean, we’re going to use magic to construct the house after all so one month is kinda to be expected, you know~” Ari-san replied in her usual sing-song voice. Her twinkling eyes blinked curiously at my surprised expression.
I see..
Certainly if we used magic, we wouldn’t need heavy equipment for construction like in earth.
But still..
I didn’t expect you would be able to cut down the time that much!
“One month huh.. Well since we’re going to go to the capital in august, we need to make sure the construction will be able to start before august then?” Chris-san said.
“You’re right. Since we don’t know how long we will have to stay in the royal capital. I think it’d be best if we can start before we leave for the capital.”
“On august, hm?~ Today is 27th June and the house will roughly finish in one month~♪ I will introduce you to the contractor I know, okay?~ ♪They will certainly make a beautiful house for you!~”
The capital, huh..
If possible, I wanted to properly greet everyone’s family before our marriage when we go to the royal capital.
Even if we got married before then, I still wanted to meet their family!
I should talk about this with them after this.
“I’ve filled all the forms. With this, I believe there won’t be any problem, right?”
“Wow~ Let me confirm it for a bit~ Hmm~ ♪ Yup!~ No problem at all!~ So when will you guys move into the house? Do you want to move in on July? Since today is already 27th of June anyway~♪”
“Then we will move in on 1st of July. Will that be fine?” Fer-san asked.
“Yup!~ ♪Of course it will~” Ari-san assured.
“That sounds good.” Sig-san nodded.
Both Chris-san and Sig-san who were standing behind us nodded their approval while Fer-san was discussing things with Ari-san.
“Then please proceed with the contract for 1st of July. I think… We’re going to rent it for about 3 months, perhaps?” Fer-san said.
“Okay~ I will prepare the short term contract for renting the house for you then~♪ The rent period will start from 1st of July~♪ Please prepare the deposit needed to rent the house~”
“Ah, we have to pay the deposit now, huh. [Come out, Card]. Here you go.”
I took out the guild card since this was definitely part of our household expenses.
“Thank you~ I will take the card as the payment then~ Help me with the payment please~” Ari-san went to the nearby desk where another male staff was sitting at and gave him the card to process the payment.
“Do we need to come here every month to pay the rent?” I asked.
“Umm~ That would be troublesome~ ♪Ren-kyun and the others are adventurers after all ~ There’s no guarantee you will stay at Pedrell all the time since you will need to go outside to finish the quest, right?~ I will prepare another form for you so we can have the payment to be automatically debited from your guild card~♪”
I thought we had to come here every month to pay the rent but turned out they already had an auto-debet system in this world?!
Whoa.. I wonder what other functions this guild card had..
“Then please proceed with the automatic payment then. Ah but, I still can’t write the alphabet of Alsar yet..”
Now that I think about it…
Up until now, I never paid any attention to learning the alphabet in this world because I didn’t have any problem in speaking or reading the letter.
But it was very irresponsible of me to forget learning such a crucial thing..
“Ah then we can have other people write it down for you. It’s okay~ ♪ Ren-kyun you will only need to sign the paper afterwards~”
Fer-san received the form and started to fill the paper for us.
“Here you go, Ren-kun. Please put your signature here.”
“Thank you very much.. Umm.. Can you also please teach me the alphabet later for me?” I took the paper that Fer-san held for me and asked him whether he’d be fine in teaching me the alphabet of this world.
“Of course, leave it to me. I think between all of us, I’m the most suited to teach you.” Fer-san nodded his head while laughing gently.
Well I also agreed that Fer-san seemed to be the most suitable to be a teacher between all of my fiances.
Come to think of it, now my name was Ren Himukya Cleva.
I usually wrote the kanji of my japanese name as my signature up until now.
Hmm.. I guess for now I should sign the contract using the kanji of my japanese name as well.
“Okay I’ve signed it. Will that be all?”
I returned the contract back to Ali-san when the previous male staff came with my guild card.
“Yup! Here’s your card~ You can start moving in on the 1st of July then~”
Now that I think about it.. I didn’t know how much we had to pay for the rent yet!
“Fer-san, I’m sorry but I think I missed it when Ali-san told us the price of the rent. How much did we have to pay exactly?” I whispered to Fer-san who was sitting beside me.
I think I might’ve missed it when Fer-san and Ali-san had talked about the rent.
“Ah, it’s 400.000 elk.”
“400-! I see.. Thank you, Fer-san.”
Back in Japan the rent for a 1 LDK apartment was about 40.000 yen so the rent price for this house was 10 times the price I usually had to pay for my 1 LDK apartment!
Although to be fair, I didn’t know the price range of the estate market in this world so I didn’t know whether 400.000 was too expensive or not..
“Okay then!~ You guys want to buy that plot of land, right? If there’s no doubt, I want to proceed with the payment now. Do you want to take a loan for it?~” Ali-san asked.
Ah so in Alsar we also had a loan system for buying real estate huh.
“No, we’re going to pay it all upfront. [Come out, Card]. Here’s my card.” Fer-san immediately pulled out his guild card nonchalantly and gave it to Ali-san.
Huh? W-we’re going to buy the land with cash?!
“Ho~ As expected from an A-rank adventurer! Fer-kyun, you’re going to pay the land by yourself?~”
“Yes. I will pay for the land since Chris and Sig will be in charge of paying for the building and the furniture.”
“E-eh? When did we decide on that?” I asked.
Somehow they had decided on something crucial like this without discussing it with me first?!
“We talked about it after we had finished the discussion about the engagement cuff~ Ren-chan was still having lunch so while we were waiting for Ren-chan we decided to discuss it~ The land and everything will be under Ren-chan’s name too~” Chris-san explained.
“Why didn’t I have to pay for anything at all?! Please don’t decide on such important things without discussing it with me too!”
Of course this wasn’t the first time they decided on something without consulting it with me first but I just couldn’t let this one slide!
Furthermore, the deed was under my name?!
I didn’t even have to pay a penny at all!
Could I really call myself their lover when I basically gave zero contribution?
If we are going to be a family then we should’ve discussed important things like this together!
I was really upset that my voice came out rougher than I intended to be.
Because I raised my voice so suddenly like that, everyone in the store was looking at us.
Chris-san and the others looked bewildered too which didn’t surprise me since it was the first time I ever raised my voice at them.
“Ah.. I’m sorry for yelling like that.. I will go cool off my head for a moment.. Pardon me..”
I couldn’t stand the tension so I immediately ran out of the store.
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Ferdinand’s POV
“W-wait! Ren-kyun?! Oi! You guys! You’re not going to chase after him?!”
“Ren-kun.. Yelled at us..”
“Huh?!”
It was my first time seeing Ren-kun become angry like that.
The three of us were so flabbergasted that we didn’t react immediately even when Ren-kun ran away with teary eyes.
Ren-kun must be close to crying..
“What? You guys have never fought with Ren-kyun before?”
“Sort of. Ren usually acts very calm and gentle so it was our first time seeing Ren raised his voice like that and as far as we know, we never make Ren upset either…. Oi! We have to chase after Ren!”
Yes, Ren-kun always smiled gently and acted reserved even though we always told him to never hold himself back.
To think we made the calm and gentle Ren-kun so upset like that…!
“Waaaait a minute! My excellent staff already went after Ren-kyun so you guys don’t have to worry about him. For now, I want you guys to sit down and tell me exactly what happened!”
Sig was about to run after Ren-kun but Ali immediately stopped him with an exasperated expression on her face.
Ali usually acted all bubbly but this time, she looked so serious and calm.
She told us to sit down first and tell her what happened but..
I wonder from where did we have to start..
“Uwaaah… What should we do? Ren-chan.. He looks close to crying! We don’t have time for this! We have to run after Ren-chan quickly!~”
Chris was confused and close to panic but Ali cut him off and said,”Really.. You guys.. Did you guys decide on all of this without consulting with Ren-kyun first?”
Ali-san sighed and continued,” Did I hit the mark? I think you guys must’ve decided on something without discussing with him first and overwhelmed him.”
Discussion?
With the exception of me, Chris and Sig inclined their head to the side.
The three of us didn’t quite understand what Ali talked about.
“Listen here, Ren-kyun is an otherworlder so he must have different common sense and value compared to us. And you guys decided to marry him without understanding first what kind of value he had been raised with all these time?If you guys don’t communicate with him properly, you are going to be divorced in the blink of an eye you know?”
I couldn’t contain the shock on my face when Ali mentioned the word ‘divorce’.
We haven’t gotten married yet but we are going to be divorced already even though Ren-kun was so precious to us?!
“Especially about the house. I know you guys are loaded so you might not know this but people usually only buy a house once in a lifetime. During my time working as a real estate agent, I’ve had my fair share of seeing married couples fight over various things when buying a house. And here you guys. Suddenly you bought a land and planned on building a house there under Ren-kyun’s name without consulting with him first! Do you really think he will take it all with a stride?!”
Certainly.. She was right..
While it may be true that Ren-kun didn’t know about the norm in Alsar, we did decide things without consulting him first.
We couldn’t marry him when we had communication problems like this..
I didn’t know what Chris and Sig were thinking but they also silently listened to Ali.
“Well~ I take it you guys understand it now, right? Ren-kyun might look young but he’s a proper adult, you know? You shouldn’t brush him off like that. You have to discuss things properly with him, you know? So after you apologize to him, you guys have to talk about everything properly with him, okay? Well~ Ren-kyun has already signed the contract for renting the house and paid the rent for one month so you guys can just move in according to your plan but I’m holding the contract for the land on reserve until you guys finished talking with Ren-kyun! If by one week you guys aren’t able to come in agreement, I will sell the land to someone else!”
“Yeah~ Ari, thank you~ We will talk properly with Ren-chan..”
“We will be going first.”
“See you later.”
And with that, the three of us went out of Ali’s store to chase after Ren-kun.
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“So? Do you guys have any idea where Ren ran off to?”
“I wonder where~ Maybe he went to the guild? Or to his home?~”
“I think we have no choice but to separate and look for Ren-kun by ourselves.”
We could’ve waited for Ali’s staff but we just couldn’t wait anymore.
Ren-kun usually always went with the flow but our dispute this time was serious enough for him to get angry for.
We had to look for Ren-kun now!
