World Teacher

“Haah, they look so lovely together… Hopefully Lord Sirius and I will eventually look like them, and—I mean! There’s no way that’d happen! I’m nothing but his pupil, after all! The fact that I can remain by his side is good enough for me, either way. However, if one day he could hold me in his arms, I…” Looks like she’s in a world of her own, as well. I walk over towards her, heave a long sigh, and pat her on the head, bringing her back to reality. “Wha—?! Hehehe… Lord Sirius…” “Welcome back to reality. Also, to the two love birds, if I could have your attention for one second…” “Huh?! I-I profusely apologize, Lord Sirius!” shouts Dii. “Tehehe…” Noel doesn’t seem to have snapped out of it just yet. Hopefully she comes back to reality once I start talking… hopefully. “I was thinking of holding your wedding ceremony tomorrow.” “Wedding ceremony?!” Dii, Noel, and Emilia suddenly cry out loud at the same time. Looks like Noel is finally back. “There’s no need for such a thing, my Lord! As long as Noel stays by my side, I wouldn’t ask for anything else!” “Y-Yes, exactly! There’s no need for you to go so far for us, and…” “It’ll be a small ceremony for those of us living here only, so there will be no need to spend an outrageous amount of money, don’t worry.” After how long the two of them have made us wait for this, I’d like to celebrate their love as best as I can. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. “Let’s do that, big sis Noel! Big bro Dii!” “Yeah! I’d like to celebrate for you two as well!” “Whether we have your approval or not, we’re going to prepare the wedding anyway. All you have to do is wait for us to finish said preparations.” I was hoping to keep these wedding preparations a secret, but this is a small mansion, and we all live together here, so Dii or Noel would’ve found us out eventually. I had a feeling that we probably should be forthcoming in the end. That way, they can tell us what they’d prefer to have in this celebration and we can make it even more special for them. Upon hearing that we will celebrate it no matter what, both Dii and Noel smile and nod. “Thank you so much, Lord Sirius!” both shout at the same time. I suppose the celebration itself will be my wedding present for them. For the rest of the night, we spend a bunch of hours talking about the wedding and how it should be done. We wake up early the next morning and assign roles to each other, so we know who will be responsible for what. “Just as we discussed yesterday, Emilia and Noel will take care of the wedding dress. Leus will procure the ingredients for the food, while Dii and I will be on cooking duty.” “Okay!” everyone shouts at the same time. “With regards to the design of the dress I gave to the two of you, there’s no need to follow the plans to the letter if you believe it will be too difficult to make. Understood?” “No need to worry! I’ll be able to make something today for sure!” “Indeed! Miss Erina taught us everything we’d need to succeed!” Yesterday, I gave Emilia and Noel a rough sketch of a wedding dress design I remember seeing in a magazine back in my old life, telling them to use that as a reference for Noel’s dress. “Also, Leus, if something happens, be sure to come back here immediately. Got it?” “Leave it to me, big bro!” The forest around this area should be like Leus’ backyard by now. He must know it like the back of his hand, so it should be safe to leave him to his own devices. Once those three begin their assignments, Dii and I head towards the kitchen to begin our own preparations. “Let’s get started with the cooking, then.” “I’ll be sure to make sure I understand everything,” says Dii while pulling out a notebook and a pencil, his expectant gaze watching my every move. He’s probably caught on by now that I’m going to make a new dish, and is planning on taking notes so he can do it himself. When it comes to cooking recipes, he always wants more and more of them; his curiosity never sated. “We’ll have to leave the main dish for when Leus returns though, because we need the bird in order to cook it. Let’s start with the cake first and go from there.” “A cake?! You will make a dish that only the nobility can enjoy for our wedding, my Lord?!” “I don’t think the cake you’ve envisioned and the one that I’m going to make are the same thing, so don’t worry about it too much.” Apparently, the cakes they make around here are more of a status symbol than things you eat. As far as I’m aware, they’re created with a bread dough base, kneading sugar into it and adding some fruits to the dough before baking it, which results in a rather bland taste. Nobility tends to stack these circular cakes one over the other, creating these gigantic towers that signal their status of superiority over the others. Obviously, that’s not what I’m aiming for here. What I plan to do is make a cake that resembles more the ones that were made in my own world. This can be done using a sponge dough with eggs, butter, and other basic ingredients, some whipped cream (that I’ve been able to emulate recently), topped off with some fruits and berries for flavor. “Okay, so first things first, you gotta mix these ingredients into a single dough, then we’ll bake it all in the metallic box with the circle inside.” As I explain to Dii the process of making a cake, I create the dough and place it into a cake mold, followed by placing it into a steel box beside us. Though it sticks out like a sore thumb, this is a special box that I asked Dii to get for us in town. Within it, there’s a special magic circle I drew. When mana is infused into it, the circle ignites itself and emanates heat within the area where it has been drawn, acting like the equivalent of an oven. “This is the part you must be most careful about, so remember well what I’m doing right now… okay, it should be fine like this. Next…” “Big bro! I got the bird and the berries you asked me to fetch for you!” Just as we’ve finished making the sponge for the cake and I’ve taught Dii how to make whipped cream, Leus returns with everything we need to finish the plates. “Good work, Leus, but… I think you went overboard with what you got. There’s too much food…” “But we’re talking about big sis Noel’s and big bro Dii’s wedding here! I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself if there wasn’t enough food to celebrate!” The reason I’m scolding him right now is because his bag is absolutely brimming with berries, and he’s holding a total of six duck-like birds in both of his hands. There’s enough food for ten people here, not for five. Hell, there might be enough for fifteen people. Maybe I should’ve been more specific with the quantity of food I wanted, but I wasn’t expecting Leus to do all of this. I’ll be sure to remember this the next time I ask him to do something by himself, so I don’t leave him to rely on his instincts. Leus’ excess of food forces us to find a way to preserve the excess amount he brought, which ends up taking quite a bit of time, far more than I’d expected once he returned with the ingredients. Whatever the case, once night arrived, the living room was already arranged in a way so we could hold the wedding ceremony there. We’ve set up a podium on which I can stand as the priest. To fulfill this role, I’m wearing a long robe, while Dii has decided to wear some flashy clothes for the occasion as well. He’s clearly restless though, as we both wait for Noel to enter. Leus, now aware of Dii’s nervousness, gazes upon him with a shocked expression and approaches him in an attempt to calm him down. “Big bro Dii, you gotta take it easy. Big sis Noel isn’t gonna go anywhere, you know?” “I know, okay? Try and understand how I’m feeling right now…” I can understand his nervousness. It’s his wedding, after all. Whatever the case, the door eventually opens, and the first one that appears is Noel wearing her wedding dress. “I’m sorry for making you guys wait! The main heroine has appeared on stage!” says Emilia, with a smile on her face. She’s holding hands with Noel. The wedding dress Noel is wearing is the culmination of my mother’s teachings: the lace fastens the dress, and the dress has a few ornaments as well. Considering they made it in a single day, I’d say this is a fantastic effort, and it looks absolutely beautiful. Without saying a single word, Noel slowly approaches Dii, and once she stands before him, she smiles. “So, how do I look? Am I… beautiful?” “Of course you are,” says Dii, while opening his eyes like plates and staring into Noel—he’s completely entranced by her. Emilia takes a few steps back, and after that, both Dii and Noel face me with a serious look on their faces. Looking at them like this is making me tear up a little bit. I feel like a father whose daughter is getting married today, but this isn’t the time to be sentimental. I must do my job. “Well then, I suppose it is high time to start the wedding ceremony.” “Yes,” both answer at the same time. Weddings in this world aren’t much different from the ones in the world I used to live in, at least when it comes to nobility. Family members and friends are invited, so the two who are getting married recite their vows, and then hold a party to celebrate. When it comes to commoners having weddings, things are rather different, and wedding ceremonies can take many forms, just like the one we’re having right now. “Since we haven’t decided how we’re going to do the ceremony just yet, would you two allow me to do it in the way I know?” “Since you were the one who proposed the idea of having the ceremony, I’ll leave everything to you, Lord Sirius.” “I’m fine with that as well.” “Thanks. Then I’ll need you both to answer some questions of mine.” I remember that back in the other world I had to pretend to be a priest in an undercover mission. I never would’ve expected to act like an actual priest after that, though. Anyways, I clear my throat and turn around, look up as if I was facing heaven itself, and start the ceremony. “To the Lord above, Dimas and Noel stand before us, ready to join together in holy matrimony in front of us all. We beg you to watch over the ceremony and accept their vows.” I then turn around to face the happy couple, who are looking at me very seriously, clearly tense.