King and Queen's wedding instantaneously became a great big success among its guests.
After the two monarchs had kissed, the real fun would finally start, which wasn't just the fact that the Pandora Palace Orchestra was finally allowed to play their frantic array of the newlywed couple's favourite classical songs.
"Kingy Wingy Would You Like To Have The First Slice Of Cake?" Queen asked.
"Me?" King asked. "Th… I, um… wh-why won't we share a big one together?"
"Oh But That's An Even Better Idea. Only We Get The Biggest Slice Okay Since We're Just Married After All."
"Sounds like a terrific idea." King wanted to grab the largest cake knife from its block, but Igos swiftly put a stop to that.
"Please let me do the honours, my King" Igos said. "You asked for the biggest piece for you and Queen together? I'll take care of it." He carefully grabbed said knife from its block and started cutting a nice and even one-quarter triangle out of the ginormous wedding cake that stood just near him, King and Queen.
The inside of the cake consisted of many chocolate and vanilla shortbread biscuits that were arranged into a checkerboard pattern and smothered into a thick layer of white chocolate ganache, which acted as some sort of glue to the black rolled fondant that coated the entire biscuit base. On the rest of the cake, there were spades in several sizes that were alternately made out of blue and white rolled fondant and glued to the main layer of black fondant icing with the same white chocolate ganache. (By the way, said rolled fondant had a soft and very pleasant vanilla flavour that'd make your taste buds sing like professional opera performers.) On the utmost top of the cake, a light blue rose made out of light blue rolled fondant was present.
"Oh my goodness…!" Swatch gasped once he saw the inside of the cake. "It looks beautiful and delicious at the same time…!"
"Right?" Tasque Manager said. "I can't wait until I can taste such a piece myself!"
"Art that cake not a pieceth of art?" Rouxls said. "Liketh a pristineth painting?"
"Indeed it is" Cathy replied. "Isn't Papa the best pastry chef around? He helped Top Chef out with it, and the both of them were indescribably proud of the final result."
"Who did what exactly while building that cake?" Iggy asked.
"Top Chef baked and assembled the shortbread base and additionally took care of the chocolate ganache, and Papa made sure that the black rolled fondant found itself on all of the layers and that the other colours of rolled fondant were turned into the rose and spade decorations as seen on the cake."
"I see, I see. I was already like: isn't Top Chef terrible at making decorations like that?"
"'Terrible' isn't an appropriate enough word for that, but I get the idea. Top Chef does make pretty neat-looking chocolates, though. Wonder if there'll be any here soon."
Once King and Queen had gotten their shared piece of cake, Igos made sure that everyone else on the roof, including himself, got a piece of their own as well.
"Whom of us shall have the first bite?" King asked.
"You Should Kingy Wingy" Queen giggled. "I Can See Both Of Your Mouths Water Floods At This Point." She poked her fork into the piece of cake and took quite a bit off of it.
"Seems legit." King opened his mouth and accepted Queen's forkful. "Ooh, I love itch texchture…" He then smacked his lips in between the chewing. "Whoa… thich isch wonderful! The perfectly balanched blend of vanilla and chocolate!" Next up, he took a bit off of the cake for Queen. "Open up the hatch, Queenie Beanie…!"
The cyber monarch laughed, paired with her visor showing the text 'LOL' while she did, and soon accepted her husband's forkful as well.
"Nice And Crunchy But Altho A Bit Thoft." She then smacked her lips a little as well. "Oh My Circuitsch Thith Ith Delightful! It Feelth Like My Tathte Budth Are Danching On: Cloud 9!"
"Right? If only we could eat this entire cake!"
"Oh Kingy Wingy You And Your Big Tummy…!" Giggling, Queen playfully poked King's stomach for several times, but made sure to not accidentally poke his mouth there.
"Sweetheart, you might be smaller than I am, but you, too, have always proven that you're able to eat 'a thousand Octoroks' or whatever they're called once you're hungry and there's a galore of food present…!"
"Oh You…!" Queen poked her index finger into some of the chocolate ganache and bopped King's nose with it, laughing even harder after she did so while her visor showed the text 'LMAO'.
"You'd better kiss that off of me."
"Not When You Do The Same To Me Sweet Kingy Wingy…!"
"Well, you asked for it, so your wish is my command." King copied Queen's chocolate ganache nose bop on her, smiling widely and laughing somewhat mischievously as he did.
The cyber monarch kissed King's nose, simultaneously licking her share of chocolate ganache off of it with tiny tongue movements. Afterwards, she giggled while her visor showed the '^^' emote.
Once it was the spadeling's turn to kiss, nearly everyone else's attention was aimed at the newlywed couple.
"What are they doing…?" Eiji chuckled. "Playing some sort of silly ganache game?"
"Very likely" Milo replied, "and the rules are quite simple."
"The one with ganache on their face must get kissed!" Nico added enthusiastically.
"But this is solely a couples' game, not a siblings' game."
"Or even a friends' game or acquaintances' game, because kissing without consent?"
"Ew!"
"A big no-go!"
"Too bad I don't really have anyone…" Eiji said with a slight pout and an obvious hint of sadness in his voice.
"Oh, neither do I" Cathy said. "You might think that Bowen and I are still together, but…"
"Cath, I know the two of you are no longer together, and that's okay."
"Oh? Yeah, uh, yeah… ah, banana oil, I must really stop talking so loudly when I call someone over the telephone…"
"But is it a best friends' game?" Iggy asked her two cousins. "I can see some ganache above a certain someone's upper lip…!" She giggled quietly yet mischievously.
Milo and Nico looked at one another in surprise before bursting out in loud laughter.
"None of us ever said that!" they said in unison.
"I did now. Cathy? There's some chocolate ganache above your upper lip."
"Oh?" Cathy said as she subsequently tried to lick the non-existent stain off.
But before she knew it, her best friend broke it off with a quick kiss on the mouth, leaving the Hathy blushing all over afterwards.
King and Queen, who saw it happen in the distance while continuing to eat their shared piece of cake, couldn't help but chuckle and smile at the cute sight.
Amore and Izuki also saw it happen, and Amore almost choked on his Butler Juice in disbelief, whereas Izuki couldn't help but spit a bit of theirs out for the same reason.
"D-did she just…?!" Izuki stammered.
"That's right" Amore chuckled. "But aren't they best friends?"
"Yeah, I thought the same, to be frank…"
"I only give goodnight kisses to Mama, Papa and Cathy every now and then… but I would never just kiss someone directly onto their mouth."
"You don't necessarily have to do that once you're in a relationship, buddy." The sleepy Ponman drained the rest of her Butler Juice and placed its now empty plastic box onto a nearby table. "Not when you're not ready, at least. You should always do whatever makes you feel comfortable."
"That's correct for sure."
In the background, the orchestra was now done playing the current song.
"Swatch!" the conductor shouted as she put her baton down. "You want to perform?"
"Huh?" Swatch said upon suddenly hearing their name. "S-sure… yeah, yeah!" They took quite the sip from their box of Butler Juice, calmly went towards the grand piano and put their drink and piece of cake on its plate onto a nearby coffee table.
"You do you, mon amie" the pianist, a Virovirokun with a thick, stereotypical French accent, said as she smiled and got off of the black velvet stool.
Swatch sat down, took some deep breaths, stretched their feathery fingers and started playing Planet Observatory 2 soon after.
"So…" Cathy, who was still blushing, said to Iggy, "hey, um… w-wanna waltz with me?"
"Me?" Iggy said. "Oh, I mean, uh, of course! Haha, I never thought you'd ask…!"
"We're best pals, right? We can waltz, too."
"That's absolutely correct." The friendly Rudinn took her best friend in a gentle grasp with her left arm, and held on to the latter's left hand with her right hand, which they held out together. "Whoa… oh my goodness, this feels… s-so loving…!" She, too, was now blushing.
Cathy simply smiled and giggled as she silently convinced Iggy to dance along by shuffling to the left.
Bowen saw the best-friends-or-something-else-interaction happen from his seat, and silently nodded at the sight.
I'm glad that neither me nor Cathy are sad about our decision to split up, he thought to himself, and that she still sees a good dance partner in her best friend.
"Hey, you there…!" a female Swatchling dressed in blue said. "You wanna dance with me?"
"Of… of course…!" Bowen got up from his seat and bowed deeply before gently grabbing the Swatchling lady's feathery left hand with his right one. "Say, I haven't gotten your name yet, even though I do encounter you very often back at the mansion…"
"Neither have I gotten yours. You're part of that gossip guy quintet, right? Of which Mar is also part?"
"Correct. I'm Bowen."
"I'm Ellie Chantillon. Nice to meet you."
"Ah, Mardi's cousin, huh? Nice to finally meet you in person!"
"Ah, so Mar has told you a little about me? That's crazy in the positive sense. He never told me about you."
Bowen chuckled softly as he started his first few waltzing moves with Ellie.
King and Queen saw the number of waltzing couples near the as-good-as silent orchestra increase, and since they had finished their piece of cake many minutes ago already, they decided to join in.
"Reminds me of the time I proposed to you…" King whispered in Queen's ear spot.
"Oh That Was A Splendid Time" Queen whispered back, "But This Is Significantly Better For We're Together Forever Now." Her visor showed two beating heart icons.
"This is the best highlight in both of our lives, isn't it?"
"I Agree With Those Terms And Conditions."
The youngest card monarch couldn't help but chuckle softly as he gently nudged his wife to pose into the next waltz pose.
While Swatch continued playing the piano, the rest of the Pandora Palace Orchestra suddenly decided to join in with them, the spacey waltz song growing bigger and grander for the next few times in which it was repeated.
"Whoa…" Tasque Manager whispered. "It's just like the original song…!"
"It art beautifulst…" Rouxls said with a smile and a soft sob.
"Are you okay, Rouxls?"
"Ay, I art justeth fine. It art just… the music art so touching…! It soundeth wonderful…!"
"Music always has wonderful effects like this on us, huh?" Tasque Manager put her hand on Rouxls's shoulder and carefully dabbed at his eyes with the handkerchief that she grabbed from his chest pocket. "I bet nobody regrets Queen's wish of the orchestra playing here."
"I surely doth not."
After a little while, Swatch and the orchestra stopped playing, and everyone else briefly stopped to applaud before Swatch left the grand piano to the orchestra's pianist again.
"Thank you all kindly" the shy Swatchling said as they bowed deeply for several times. "It was an honour to play for such a kind and lovely audience." They headed away from the stage and went towards the buffet table to help themself to some well-deserved food.
"You Were Wonderful As Always Swatchy Watchy" Queen said as she blew a quick kiss to her younger stepsibling. "Wanna Know A Secret Kingy Wingy? They Have Always Played A Little Better Than: My Mansion's Symphony Orchestra…"
"I think they can both play very well" King said. "When I hear the orchestra play live like this, it sounds like I'm inside of Windows Media Player, with those beautiful instruments expressing themselves all around me."
Queen couldn't help but giggle a little at the comparison, and slowly leaned towards King for a long kiss.
"Your warm core always pleases me, Queenie Beanie. But today, it pleases me more than ever. I never want to lose you anymore."
"Neither Do I Kingy Wingy Sweetie Honey Darling Gravy."
While the two newlywed monarchs continued their peaceful kissing spree, the orchestra started on the next song, to which everyone else immediately started doing their own unique dances again.
Before everyone knew it, this very day went by in almost half a blink of the eye.
Everyone enjoyed the foods and drinks, the music, the galore of company, everyone else's friendliness… but most importantly, the fact that the two monarchs of both of the involved factions were married at last.
The new day had only just started two hours ago, and at long last, King and Queen were huddled into their bed together.
"I Enjoyed Every Single Millisecond Of: Today" Queen said.
"So did I" King said.
"Everyone Else Is Probably On About A Honeymoon By Now But We Have Nowhere To Travel."
"We could spend a few hours in a city, to name a dumb example."
"Ooh That's Not Dumb That's A Wonderful Idea! Cyber City Is Beyond: Wonderful."
"Cyber City, you say? Didn't your mother use to love that place?"
"Correct. She Would Always Visit Each And Every Corner Of It."
"Do you know if Cyber City is crowded?"
"It Surely Is With Its Galore Of: Traffic. Cars Are Present In A Big Assortment Of Colours. My Mother Used To Take Me There On Rare Occasions When I Was Still Young. But There Are Also A Lot Of Advertisers Who Want You To Buy Their Junk Even Though Not Everyone Will Fall For It That Easily."
"Then we better steer clear from them."
"We Should Have Some Street Food At The Biggest Food Court Of Cyber City."
"Street food, you say?"
"Record Bagels And Tea And Anything Remotely Similar."
"Ah, I didn't know that was Cyber World street food in the first place! Give me all of it…!"
"Furthermore I Have No Clue On What We Shall Do By Then."
"Maybe you could show me around the best parts of the city? Don't worry, though, I'll protect you from any bad guys in case they show up."
"We Should However Be Quick When We Want To Cross: The Roads. Their Traffic Lights Only Last A Few Seconds Before The Traffic Continues And We Don't Want To Put Ourselves Into Any Danger Now Do We?"
"What an interesting way of traffic in that very city. Almost… reckless and chaotic. They should maintain the order better, if I may be so frank."
"Yes I Agree On The Terms And Conditions Of: That Statement. This Has Been A Thing For Years But Even My Mother Could Do Nothing About It And It Annoys Me Just As Much."
"Really? That honestly worries me a lot."
"It's Like Those Addisons Who Advertise Their Big Stupid Junk Care More About That Than The Weird Traffic Conditions. I Can't Believe They Classify That As: Civilised, While It's Anything But That!"
"Yeah, the peers at your mansion are a million times more civilised. They kindly ask formal questions and even bow for their guests. But just continuing to advertise for nonsense and not even keeping the traffic situation in mind? If I were one of your direct ancestors, I would've immediately put a forceful stop to that."
"Force Was Sadly Not Always Included In My Mother's Dictionary, But If I Never Met You I Could've Done This Myself Too." Queen nodded while her visor showed the text 'true'. "Too Bad I'm No Longer Involved With The Cyber World For Now."
"Yeah, that's a legit point you got there."
Queen then couldn't help but yawn widely and lean her head into King's chest.
"What About We Go To Cyber City Tomorrow To Spend Some Time With Just The Two Of Us?"
"Your impression of Cyber City that's not its traffic has indeed gotten me pretty curious, and I'm only glad that you're not willing to leave me waiting for too long."
"Then We Shall Officially Go There Tomorrow. Will Anyone Recognise Us I Wonder?"
"If they do but they only trumpet criticism around about the two of us, I'll pummel them to bits, no mercy."
"Oh You…!" Queen giggled a little while her visor showed the text 'haha'.
"No, I'm serious. My strength is beyond everyone else's maximum intelligence. Remember that one time when I slammed my fist on the dining table and accidentally sent the silverware and candelabras flying before dinner was even served?"
"Ha Ha Ha I Remember That As If It Was: Yesterday…!"
"I can do the same to anyone who's unwilling to accept our marriage for what it is."
"Oh Kingy Wingy How Much I Love You And Those Comments." The cyber monarch peppered both of her husband's cheeks with several kisses. "Never Have I Ever Known Anyone With Such An Interesting Knowledge."
"Same to you, Queenie Beanie." King planted a few kisses on Queen's forehead. "Maybe this is why fate decided to let us meet and establish our romance."
"We're Oftentimes The Only Ones Who Understand One Another Isn't That: Correct?"
"It surely is. It occasionally feels like we can just read one another's minds without any issue, and yet everyone just keeps on reacting in such a surprised fashion."
"They Just Don't Know Us Well Enough But Okay This Whole Thing Can Apply To Any Couple Whether They're Married Or Not."
"True, true. But neither of us have ever been in love with anyone else before, as far as I know."
Queen simply nodded, while her visor showed the text 'true' once again.
"It just feels so weird that those cretins of other kings would always tease me about the fact that I'd never even find a proper love interest in my life… and look at me now, only just married to the one and only."
"You're My One And Only Too Sweet Kingy Wingy. Never Have I Ever Loved Anyone More Than You, And To Think Nobody Ever Teased Me About That On The Contrary."
"Not even Swatch?"
Queen shook her head, but was soon found nodding off.
"Consider yourself lucky to come from such a wealthy and loving Dark World. I may've grown up in the darkest childhood that one could possibly imagine, but you surely are the light in my life that keeps me sane." King pulled the covers over both himself and Queen, and kissed both of her cheeks. "Good night, sweet Queenie Beanie. I'll always love you."
"Good Night Kingy Wingy Dear I'll Love You Forever Too." The tired cyber monarch gave her husband one last long kiss on his cheek.
Within only just a few seconds, the newlywed couple was out like a light, officially declaring the entirety of Card Castle as quiet that night.