I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince

At the Blackwood Mansion. Ethan’s personal room.

Ethan had unexpectedly brought Lilith to his bedroom after she suddenly collapsed in the dining room, slowly stroking her head as she slept peacefully, resting on his thigh.

‘It seems she hasn’t been able to sleep properly for almost three days. No wonder she’s tired.’

Naturally, Ethan, who spent most of his day with her as her exclusive maid, was the first to notice that Lilith’s condition was worsening day by day.

That’s why Ethan had also recommended rest from the first day when Lilith looked a bit tired, but she simply didn’t listen.

To be more precise, it wasn’t that she didn’t listen, but rather that she was in a state where she couldn’t rest anyway. But from Ethan’s perspective, he couldn’t help but feel guilty about the situation where she had collapsed trying to perform her maid duties every day despite overexerting herself. [Only on Galaxy Translations! / Axiomatic]

The fact that he was able to catch Lilith’s body just before she collapsed at the dining table was only possible because Ethan, who somehow had a bad feeling that day, had been tailing Lilith.

Laying her head on his thigh like this was also something that happened by chance. Originally, he had intended to let her sleep on the large bed in his room.

Since Lilith would groan painfully and try to wake up whenever her body tried to separate from his, they eventually ended up in this position after several attempts.

‘Has she been having nightmares lately?’     

If she really hadn’t been able to sleep for the past few days due to nightmares, there was nothing he could do to help. Even if he loved Lilith, he couldn’t enter her dreams to protect her.

In reality, Lilith had escaped from her nightmares and fallen into a deep sleep just by feeling Ethan’s warmth next to her, but there was no way for Ethan to know this since he couldn’t enter her mind.

Instead, knowing that stroking her head from beside her helped calm her down, he was just doing that for now.

Lilith’s expression, sleeping soundly with the back of her head against his thigh, seemed incredibly lovable to Ethan.

So much so that an impure desire to kiss her while she was asleep inadvertently bloomed.

‘…Come to think of it, what was that just now?’

Ethan, deliberately turning his gaze away from Lilith’s lips and shifting his thoughts in a different direction, carefully recalled what had happened in the dining room just before.

After he had picked up Lilith, who had collapsed in the dining room, in his arms and told the other maids present that it would be best to let her rest for now…

The moment he recalled Lilith’s action of suddenly opening her eyes and looking at him, he felt his heart, which had momentarily calmed down, start beating again.     

‘It certainly wasn’t a dream.’     

Well, Lilith seemed to have kissed him in a state of half-sleep or while dreaming, but for Ethan, it was undoubtedly a kiss from Lilith’s side.

A kiss that came purely from Lilith approaching him first, not one that came in response to him approaching or demanding something as usual.

The sensation of her lips suddenly pressed against his while in his arms seemed to have felt much longer than it actually was, even though it must have been just a moment.

‘What could it have meant….’

It seemed like she might have faintly called his name just before the kiss.

Lilith had an unpleasant expression as if having a nightmare, then called his name, and her expression became peaceful. After that, she slightly opened her eyes and kissed him.

Since that scene was witnessed by her colleagues who happened to be in the same dining room, he was worried that all sorts of rumors would spread among the servants by tomorrow.     

‘I did try to keep them quiet just in case….’

While he could trust Isabel, who even followed Lilith to Luminor Academy to help with her duties, he honestly didn’t have much faith in the inconspicuous pink-haired maid standing next to her.

In fact, Ethan didn’t really care if rumors about his and Lilith’s kiss spread. After all, if their relationship became officially known, at least among the servants of the Blackwoods, there would be no one targeting Lilith. [Only on Galaxy Translations! / Axiomatic]

More important than such trivial matters was Lilith’s feelings. No matter how much he loved her, if Lilith didn’t want him, the future he envisioned would ultimately be nothing more than a dream.

Until recently, Ethan had been upset at the suggestion that Lilith might have to follow the Hero if things went wrong, but after definitively confirming Lilith’s feelings, he was once again at ease.

After all, she had kissed him first for his sake, forgiven even his attempt to forcefully take her, and even done… things that could only be done between lovers.

Even the inexplicable behavior from just now proves it. At least, it seemed certain that she harbored affection for him.

“Phew… Pheww…”

‘You’re sleeping so soundly. Were you that tired?’

“Ethan…. I told you not to press on my head…”

“……!!!”     

Ethan was startled by Lilith’s sleep-talking and immediately withdrew his hand that had been stroking her head.

At the same time, looking at Lilith who had brought her head onto his lower body, he couldn’t help but recall her action from a few days ago when she had brought her face between his thighs.

The moment he naturally associated that act Lilith had performed on him, which was commonly referred to among nobles as ‘wrapping the wine bottle’s mouth’, Ethan’s face turned bright red right there.

‘…I never imagined she would do something like that.’

He had thought that since she was his exclusive maid, she probably didn’t know much about sexual knowledge, but seeing that she knew even about such acts, perhaps Lilith was also a young woman in her prime.

For a moment, he wondered if she might even have more lewd thoughts in her head than him, but Ethan denied that hypothesis, thinking that a young lady couldn’t possibly be like that.

‘Until we graduated from Luminor Academy… it wasn’t supposed to be done.’

The temporary lover contract stated that they would not engage in sexual relations until graduating from Luminor Academy, and if his feelings remained unchanged even after graduation, she would give her answer then.

At one point, he thought it was just an answer to postpone her response to him, but after experiencing that act from not too long ago, he couldn’t think that way anymore.

Until now, Ethan had always harbored a thought in the corner of his mind that only he had loving feelings for her, and that Lilith was reluctantly accepting his feelings due to their difference in status.

But if the temporary lover contract she spoke of was a way of conveying her true feelings, and if she, like him, was just ‘enduring’ physical relationships because of her qualification as a Saint…

Perhaps, Ethan naturally thought that he could advance their relationship a little more in other ways, except for that one act.

‘What she did with her mouth didn’t seem to affect her qualification as a Saint….’

If that level of an act was allowed, would other similar acts be allowed as well?

Except for sexual acts that could clearly be seen as a relationship between a man and woman, could all other things be permitted? [Only on Galaxy Translations! / Axiomatic]

In fact, Ethan had also been interacting occasionally with other noble children at Luminor Academy, so he had picked up some lewd knowledge bit by bit through them.

Including the ‘wrapping the wine bottle’s mouth (a metaphorical expression)’ that he had recently experienced from Lilith, there were things like ‘licking the clam soup plate (a metaphorical expression)’, or ‘the sausage rubbing between hotdog buns (a metaphorical expression)’, or even ‘the donut with holes on both sides (a metaphorical expression)’.

He couldn’t help but hear stories about the somewhat promiscuous sex lives of other noble students when interacting with them.

Even if he didn’t divulge to others about the act he had shared with Lilith, he couldn’t plug his ears from the experiences that other noble youths blurted out as if boasting alone.

Of course, he was only thinking about it in his head and didn’t have the confidence to ask her directly. Ethan didn’t want Lilith to dislike him or look at him with contempt as if he were some sort of sexual harasser if he brought up such topics from his side.

‘…Should I leave her alone to sleep soon?’

It wasn’t particularly because Lilith’s head was heavy, or because he didn’t like the current situation of giving her a lap pillow.

If he stayed in this state with their bodies touching for longer, he felt like he would keep having bad thoughts on his side. Just briefly recalling what had happened recently was enough to make Ethan’s head feel hot.

Rustle, rustle…. 

He carefully lifted Lilith to lay her on the bed, making sure his hands didn’t touch any strange places.

Just as he was about to quietly leave his room…

“E, than…?”

Lilith’s faint voice reached Ethan’s ears, and immediately after, his body fell back onto the bed once again.

“Uwaa?!”

Thud.

Due to Lilith suddenly pulling his arm, Ethan fell face-first onto the bed again, resulting in a rather embarrassing sight for others to see.

They ended up in a position of being stacked on top of each other, like when a man and woman engage in sexual intercourse. [Only on Galaxy Translations! / Axiomatic]

Of course, since both were wearing a suit and a maid uniform respectively, anyone could tell it wasn’t that kind of act, but the posture they shared was no different from that lewd position.

“W-wait, Lilith…. Are you awake…?”

Squeeze.

“Li-Lilith…?!”

Not satisfied with just putting him back in an embarrassing position when he tried to get up, Lilith wrapped her legs around his lower body. 

Ethan was overwhelmed with awkward emotions, unable to do anything in this posture that was no different from one occurring during a sexual act between a man and woman.

‘N-no…. I need to shake her off forcibly for now….’

At this rate, he was in danger of losing his patience along with his reason. That’s why Ethan was about to shake her off regardless of whether Lilith woke up or not, but…

“Ethan, don’t go….”

“……”

He couldn’t shake off Lilith’s somewhat pitiful voice echoing in his ears, so, in the end, Ethan gave up on escaping and quietly endured his desires while embraced in her arms.

T/N

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