The False Summoner

Chapter 23: Determining the Marriage (1)
Translator: Ma Shaoyi
Proofread by Peter Gong

“Mr. Hawker, don’t argue. You and I know whether it is a matter of the past or not!” Agatha snorts softly. “As for Rowen, although his answer makes me angry, he is telling the truth. He is better than you on the three tests. He’s better than you in every respect. What’s wrong with me choosing him?”

Jeff looks a little pale and speaks no more. There is silence around and Agatha’s explanation makes them admit that Agatha’s choice is out of question, though it’s a little unexpected.

Agatha pays no attention to Jeff and runs up to Rowen, who is still in a daze. She grabs his arm and pulls it up: “You, follow me!”

It isn’t until Agatha drags him to his feet that Rowen comes to his senses. The voice echoes in his head, “Am I getting married? Am I to be married?”

All this seems to have happened so quickly. He intended to leave but he has not expected that Agatha will choose him for her husband, which means that he already has a fiancee at the age of sixteen.

He does what the Patriarch wants him to do, and he should have been happy, but he isn’t happy at the moment. Of course, he is not suffering, either, but a kind of confusion he has never felt before troubles him. It is really difficult for him to accept the fact that he suddenly has a fiancee now, and this fiancee is a genius girl from a big family who is even older than him. He feels a little illusory.

“Where are you taking me?” Rowen asks. He wants to stop, but as a level-Ⅶ warrior, it is difficult for Rowen to escape from her.

“To my place!” grunts Agatha.

“Your place?” Rowen is a little confused. The Ryan Manor is a bit large. He is new to the place, and he knows nothing about it. After going through numerous doors he finds himself lost, so he has to let Agatha take him.

After a few minutes or so, Rowen finally knows what Agatha’s place is, and it’s a foundry.

At the back of the Ryan hill, there is a foundry against the wall of Luoyun hill with all kinds of furnaces and hammers for casting. The fire is still burning, and there seems to be a sword in it, but there is no one in the foundry at the moment.

“This is my foundry. How about it? Isn’t it nice?” There is a touch of pride in Agatha’s voice.

“I don’t understand that.” Rowen hesitates.

“You fool!” Agatha is angry again. “Can’t you say something nice?”

“Why do you bring me here?” Rowen asks.

“Study your summoning beast, of course. Well, how about I get some metal off your summoning beast and let me study it?” There is a touch of excitement in Agatha.

“How can I do that?” “I don’t want you to kill my summoning beast.”

“Hey, how could you say that? I am your wife now and your thing is my thing, your summoning beast is my summoning beast, so why not give it for my studying?” Says Agatha angrily.

“We’re not married yet, and even if we are, I still can’t give you my summoning beast for study.” Says Rowen coldly. “No summoner will do that to his summoning beast.”

“Just a little bit of metal, it won’t harm your summoning beast!” Says Agatha hastily. “Well, I haven’t asked you. Why is your summoning beast covered with metals all over?”

“Isn’t that all metal on you, too?” Rowen retorts.

“You are also in all metal, aren’t you?” Rowen retorts.

“It’s not the same thing! It’s just the clothes I’m wearing. It’s my own special armor!” Agatha pauses a little, then asks, “well, what do you think of my dress?”

“Not bad.” “It just doesn’t seem easy to take off.”

“Who knows, I…” Agatha retorts at once, only to suddenly realize something, and says something with some shame, “You rogue!”

Rowen realizes now that there is a bit of ambiguity in his words, and he intends to explain it. Thinking about it, he gives up, but the atmosphere seems to have become a little awkward.

“Miss!” Rowen is relieved from the embarrassment by a clear voice.

A girl is running toward this way.

“What’s the matter, Millie?” asks Agatha.

“Miss, the patriarch asks you and Mr. Wolf to see him,” gasps the girl.

“Get it.” Agatha nods, glancing at Rowen. “Come on, grandpa might tell us something!”

When Rowen and Agatha cross the Ryan Manor, Rowen finds that people are already everywhere in the Manor, and there are people saying hello to Agatha from time to time, as well as countless people who look at them curiously.

After a while, Rowen and Agatha, led by the young girl Millie, come to a house with only a few people in it. Patriarch Brain and Barnya are in there as well as Patriarch Philip, whom Rowen has already known and a middle-aged couple.

“Dad, mom, grandpa, you’re all here!” Agatha greets all these people after she enters the room, and Rowen knows instantly that the middle-aged couple are Agatha’s parents.

“Agatha, Rowen, sit down.” Patriarch Philip’s voice is soft.

Agatha says impatiently after Rowen just sits down, “what’s up, grandpa?”

“Agatha, I’ve just had a discussion with Patriarch Brain of the Wolfs, and what we mean is that: you can make an engagement now but hold a formal wedding until Rowen’s eighteen.” Philip smiles. “Of course, it depends on you. If you want to get married early, we can do it right away.”

“What do you mean, Rowen?” Patriarch Brain asks.

“Patriarch, I am not anxious, I can wait a few years.” Rowen replies.

“Hum, I’m not anxious, either, and I can also wait ten years!” Says Agatha angrily. “I don’t want to marry you!”

Philip is a little stunned. “Don’t talk nonsense, Agatha. It’s you chose Rowen. How could you say you don’t want to marry him?”

“He is so mean!” Says Agatha angrily. “He even can’t give me his summoning beast for study! Such a niggard!”

“Oh, it’s just for that trifle!” Philip smiles at Patriarch Brain with a sigh of relief. “These two children are just playing fool things and they will be fine later.

“I am not playing with him!” Agatha snorts.

“Well, Agatha, you’re getting old. Don’t be such a childish all day.” A soft voice comes from Agatha’s mother.

“Patriarch Brian, since neither Rowen nor Agatha has any problem with it, then it can be settled that they will get married until Rowen becomes eighteen, and it can’t be put off, because Agatha is a few years older.” Says Patriarch Philip.

Patriarch Brian nods. “Patriarch Philip, why don’t we fix a date? I think we can make it on the day of Rowen’s eighteenth birthday?”

“Oh, well, that’s it!” After a moment’s reflection, Philip approves.

“I think Rowen can stay at Ryan Manor for the next two years to build a relationship between them because they are not familiar with each other.” Suggests Agatha’s mother.

“I think he can’t.” Patriarch Brain seems a little awkward. Rowen’s going to the Royal Knights College in a few days.”

“Oh?” Patriarch Philip is a little surprised. “Rowen’s going to the Royal Knights College?”

Patriarch Brian nods slightly. “Yes, Patriarch Philip, in fact, I wish Agatha would accompany Rowen to the college.”

“But the college is of no much use to Agatha, and teachers in there are not better than Agatha and in that college it’s hard to find a suitable place to cast swords.” Patriarch Philip frowns slightly.

“Patriarch, I can go to the colege myself.” “Besides, aren’t Nina and Carl with me?”

“Rowen, I wouldn’t have worried about you before, but you’ve been getting assassinated all this time, and I’m afraid if there’s no one around to protect you… ” Brian sighs softly.

“Assassinated?” Patriarch phillips interjects. “Brian, what’s going on here?”

“Rowen, tell us what happened.” Patriarch Brain says.

Rowen nods and says a few words about the two assassinations, but he only mentions the two assassins. He skips over the middle-aged man he met in thunder valley, and his encounter with Yoey after his second assassination.

“Why would someone want to kill you?” Says Agatha, in a tone of incredulity and amusement. “Is it because you are a stingy man?”

Rowen doesn’t bother to talk to her, but he is slightly annoyed that she has chosen him for her own husband and now she is just dissatisfied with him.