“So? What do you want us to do?” Elze asked, tilting her head.
“You know that there’s that joint wedding party in Allent for Dauburn and Zadonia happening soon? Apparently, he wants you guys to attend the party wearing glasses so you can help advertise them.”
The young kings Hakim of Dauburn and Frost of Zadonia were betrothed to princesses Ariattie and Leticia of Allent, respectively. They’d already had their marriage ceremonies in their home countries, but they made the decision to hold a wedding party at their wives’ home country as well.
Naturally, we had been invited. Or more accurately, if I wasn’t there, there was no way to get each country’s representatives gathered in one place. The only one who could use teleportation magic besides me was the pumpkin-pants prince of Panaches.
That led to the plan of having the girls wear glasses at the party in order to try to market them to foreign countries.
“Glasses? I have no problem with my sight, I do not,” Yae stated, clearly perplexed as to why she was being told to wear them. It wasn’t too surprising—I hadn’t seen many people wearing glasses in Eashen, so it was purely viewed as a tool for correcting one’s sight over there.
“Glasses are not only worn by the visually impaired, my dear. They can draw out one’s beauty as well. You look as if a pair of oval lenses would suit you.”
Glassie leaped right in to clear up Yae’s confusion, instantly pulling out a pair of glasses with oval lenses. It looked like an average pair of glasses you’d find on Earth, with thin metallic frames.
Though she looked unsure, Yae slipped the glasses onto her face.
“H-How do I look...?”
Hng! To have Yae timidly asking me how she looks with glasses on! So cute!
The god of glasses seemed to have caught my reaction, as he let out a laugh.
“Powerful, aren’t they?”
“Ugh... I have no choice but to agree!”
Yae usually had an athletic feel about her, but the moment she put on those glasses, she suddenly had an intelligent vibe. I felt like I was looking at a studious literature student all of a sudden.
So this is gap moe!
“T-Touya-dono? Is it strange, is it?”
“No, definitely not! It really suits you! You look so cute! You have a totally different vibe from before, but that’s not a bad thing!”
“D-Do you think so, do you? Hehe...”
An embarrassed Yae in glasses looked so cute!
Man, these really are powerful... My heart’s beating a mile a minute because of how different she looks.
“D-Does it change you that much? Maybe I should try some on,” Elze muttered, beginning to be tempted.
“Hmm, it seems like you’re usually quite lively. How about some Wellington frames? I think this should give you a different image.”
Elze took the glasses the god recommended to her and slipped them on.
“H-How do I look?” she asked, trying to gauge our reactions as she gazed at us with her black, slightly rounded square-frame glasses.
Wow! She looks a little like a class president!
The usual rowdy Elze had calmed down, giving way to a diligent student. She had the image of a nagging but kind and put-together girl.
“You’re freakin’ adorbs, class prez!”
“C-Class...prez? Is that your way of saying it suits me?”
“Of course! A completely different side of you is getting to shine!”
“Really...? Well, I guess it doesn’t feel bad.”
Crap, even wearing glasses, my wives are adorable. All it took were some glasses to bring out a whole new side of them. Is this the magic of glasses?!
The god of glasses slapped me on the shoulder from behind, face smug as he gave me a thumbs-up. Why did his attitude piss me off so much? I kind of wanted to smash his glasses.
“This looks fun. I want to try some on too!”
“Me too! I wanna wear the same ones as mommy!”
Sue and Steph ended up curious themselves. Wearing the same glasses as your kid sounded cute.
Maybe I should wear the same ones as them...
“I want to wear the same ones as you too, mom!”
“Wait, I’ve got to wear them too?”
Seeing Sue and Steph go for matching pairs of glasses, Linne forcefully shoved some toward Linze. The rest of the mother-daughter duos wanted to do the same, so Glassie was taking out glasses one after another and passing them around as if he had been waiting for this very moment.
Before long, almost everyone in the room was wearing a pair, turning the room into one densely populated by people with glasses.
Hang on, if everyone wears glasses, won’t this become the new normal? There’s nothing exciting about that.
The way someone wearing glasses let them stand out was being erased by the glasses themselves.
“You really don’t get it, do you? It is the exact same situation as when everyone’s faces are bare. In fact, by having everyone wear their own unique pair of glasses, their individual charm points are further brought out, and a new sense of individuality is born. Is this not how humans should truly be? Glasses really are a part of one’s body!”
I had no idea what he was trying to say. I was almost convinced by his spectacle doctrine, but too much of anything was definitely a bad idea. They were literally just glasses. Regardless, it was rare that I got the opportunity to see the girls with glasses on, so I made sure to at least take a picture.
“...There’s something cast on these, isn’t there? These aren’t normal glasses,” Leen remarked, picking up a pair of Boston frames—glasses characterized by their inverted triangular shape. Had she seen something with the special sight granted to her by her fairy lineage?