I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince

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The morning after executing Machart and concluding the meeting about my qualifications as a Saint…

Despite sleeping alone for the first time in a while, I woke up without nightmares and slowly got out of bed, feeling rather relieved.

‘It’s been a really long time since I slept this soundly even when sleeping alone.’

Since Machart was the cause of 99.9% of my nightmares, as soon as his existence disappeared, it started to have a proper effect on my sleep. [Only on DarkStar Translations! / Axiomatic]

I had thought that even after taking down Machart, I might not be able to sleep unless I was in the same bed as Ethan, but fortunately, that didn’t seem to be the case. Originally, at Luminor Academy, we had to share a bed whether we liked it or not.

‘It would have been quite embarrassing to say I wanted to share a bed with Ethan even in a place like this.’

While Gyeongmwajogyegigwat and Seriste might be one thing, I couldn’t help but be oddly concerned about how Seraphine and Agnes would see me.

Even if I confessed that we only shared a bed and didn’t do anything else, it probably wouldn’t make a difference.

“Ah, come to think of it…”

In the end, I had fallen asleep last night without even properly changing my clothes.

Seeing that I fell asleep without even taking off the corset compressing my abdomen, I must have been really tired. No wonder my solar plexus felt tight as soon as I woke up in the morning.

In that respect, the maid uniform didn’t have these annoying additional accessories, so it was actually more comfortable to wear once you put it on.

Things like garter belts might be cumbersome to put on and take off, but they didn’t really hinder daily activities. After all, it was designed to allow easy movement while working, so good mobility was a given.

‘First, I need to wash up and change into different clothes.’

While laundry could be solved instantly using Clean, just wearing this outfit again was quite uncomfortable.

With that thought, I took off each piece of clothing I was wearing, used Clean simultaneously, and neatly folded each piece, gathering them on one side of the bed.

Even if I wore different clothes while staying at the annex of the Imperial Palace, I still had to wear these when returning. After all, strictly speaking, these were clothes that belonged to the Blackwood family, not my own.

Shhhhhhh.

As I entered the bathroom attached to the guest room, hot water flowed down over my head, and I felt deeply grateful for the water heater facilities that were uncharacteristic of a medieval world setting while roughly predicting the upcoming schedule.

‘I guess we’ll be staying at the annex for about four days?’

The place Gyeongmwajogyegigwat was likely to take us was probably one of the events that could occur during the second-year summer vacation. The summer vacation event this time was about to start soon, anyway. [Only on DarkStar Translations! / Axiomatic]

As far as I remember, there were mainly two events left around this time, and if we departed in about four days for both events, it would roughly match the arrival time.

The first event was ‘Lara’s Secret’ where we solve problems related to Witch Lara of the Pharmacy Department in the Witch’s Forest in the southwestern part of the empire, and obtain a bound item and Lara’s affection.

The second was the ‘Lilia’s Land’ event where we intervene in the territorial dispute between barbarians and nobles in the northeastern great plains, protect the barbarian tribe, and gain Lilia’s affection.

Since these two events were happening almost simultaneously, in the game, you naturally had to choose only one of them, and choosing ‘Lara’s Secret’ was generally considered the correct choice in Luminor Academy.

‘Between the two, Lara’s side had more leftovers to eat, after all.’

It wasn’t because Lilia lacked charm as a heroine or anything like that. The wild and healthy spear girl had her own cult-like popularity as a heroine.

However, the value of the rewards you could get after finishing the event was so different that even people who liked Lilia more than Lara generally chose ‘Lara’s Secret’.

First of all, in the case of Lara’s event, after finishing it, you get the ‘Witch’s Pendant’ as a bound item, which is an absurdly good cheat item with immunity to ‘mental attacks’ in the latter part of the game.

Also, since Lara doubles as a pharmacist in Luminor Academy, if you raise her affection in this event, you can get all the items you buy from her at half price afterward. It’s an absurdly cheat-like level of a benefit.

In a sense, the most important thing among the leftovers to eat remained, which was that the ‘scene count’ with Lara starts right after finishing the event.

Lara was a character with a gloomy, mentally unstable attribute by the standards of the original world. After solving the ‘Lara’s Secret’ case, she falls in love with the protagonist so quickly that she barges into the bedroom naked that very night.

However, if you’re wondering if she’s a character who easily gives her body to anyone, that’s not the case, and at least in the game’s sex scene, Lara was definitely a virgin.

‘If she had just been a real heroine, she would have eaten up the popularity of most of the other girls.’

The biggest flaw Lara had as a heroine was that she had so many maniacs that people would say she wasn’t a heroine. Literally, the biggest problem was that she wasn’t a heroine.

In reality, in Luminor Academy, Lara had almost no other personal events except for this one time. 

Even in the end, she was a completely non-conquerable character who lived her life as a witch regardless of the protagonist.

On the other hand, it meant that she didn’t have any aftermath asking to take responsibility just because you took her first time, so from the player’s perspective, the ‘Lara’s Secret’ episode was a good event to take a breather without having to measure various annoying conditions.

Even Gyeongmwajogyegigwat, who sticks to virgin play, would find it hard to easily give up this event. How could you resist ‘gloomy big-breasted mentally unstable virgin witch sex without aftermath’? [Only on DarkStar Translations! / Axiomatic]

On the other hand, unlike Lara who gave various sweet rewards and even triggered an erotic event, Lilia’s rewards were bland and the event’s ending wasn’t particularly interesting, either.

First of all, the quest gives you the ‘Barbarian’s Necklace’ as a reward after finishing the story, but the performance of that item was at an inferior level compared to the ‘Witch’s Pendant’.

Lilia’s affection does increase, but there’s no bonus like discounting the items she sells as with Lara, and since Lilia isn’t particularly mentally unstable, there’s naturally no scene that begins a ‘scene count’.

Since Lara’s event was a perfect upgrade in both efficient play and erotic events, we’ll probably all depart by carriage for the Witch’s Forest in the southwest in about four days.

‘I should buy some bug-repellent perfume when I get the chance.’

After working as a maid for a long time, I didn’t find bugs to be particularly gross anymore, but that didn’t mean I wanted to be bitten by Aedes aegyptis (T/N: dengue mosquitoes) and killer ticks in the summer forest.

With that thought, I finished showering and rummaged through the wardrobe to find something suitable to wear. Seraphine said I could use anything in the room as I pleased, so I guess I could wear anything.

‘Maid uniform, maid uniform…’

I rummaged through the guest room wardrobe looking for a maid uniform as usual, but there wasn’t even an apron or headdress in the annex room wardrobe, let alone a maid uniform. The only clothes there were noble lady dresses.

What’s this? Why isn’t there a maid uniform? I thought there would be at least one set.

Did they not even consider the possibility of a maid staying in this room? When I thought about it, it did seem like they wouldn’t have considered it.

They probably didn’t expect a situation where a maid would stay in a place like this guest room. Originally, in facilities like Imperial Palaces or annexes, when accompanying servants, it was most common for servants to share accommodations with other servants of the mansion in a servant’s room or something on the first floor.

“It’s really annoying to go down to the servant’s room to change after getting dressed…”

But I couldn’t go down in this state, wearing only underwear and a garter belt.

As I was wondering what to do, the door leading to the next room beside the wardrobe suddenly caught my eye.

“…Is this perhaps a private servant’s room?”

Thinking that if it was a servant’s room, there might be a maid uniform, I opened the door and stepped in without much thought.

However, as soon as I opened the door, what entered my sight was a bedroom that was quite spacious for a servant’s room.

“…Huh?”

Was the servant’s room in the Imperial Palace Annex this spacious? Is this the kind of facility where even servants stay in a place like the Imperial Palace?

But for something like that, I don’t think there was such a facility even in the main palace.

I’ve played 25 times, so if there was such a luxurious room, I should have seen it at least once. But this room doesn’t seem like a servant’s room; it’s just another guest room.

As I was pondering about the purpose of this room with a blank mind for a moment, the opposite door of the next room opened and someone with a familiar appearance appeared before my eyes. 

Screech.

“Phew…”

“……”

A man walked out of the room with steam rising.

My thoughts momentarily stopped as Ethan came out completely naked, and I just blankly watched that sight. It was right after that when Ethan, who came out rubbing his hair with a towel, discovered me on the opposite side. [Only on DarkStar Translations! / Axiomatic]

“……”

“…Wait, Lilith?!”

“…Y-Yes?”

“W-Why are you suddenly coming out of there, Lilith?! And in just your underwear…”

“What about you, young master? What are you doing here…? And naked at that…”

“Well, I just finished washing up…”

“I just saw a door connecting to the side and thought it might be a servant’s room, so I opened it… Oh.”

Only after saying that much did I realize the role of this door I had grabbed, and I belatedly understood that what was beyond the door was not a servant’s room but just ‘the next room’.

“I-I’m sorry, Young Master Ethan!”

Slam!

No, damn it. If there’s a room with this kind of structure, they should have explained it beforehand and told us to be careful.

I couldn’t even imagine there would be a door connecting two rooms with different entrances. Is this how all the annexes are?

‘Come to think of it, this place was the room Machart used every time he held a noble exchange meeting in the original work.’

It was a moment when I could vaguely guess how this door had been used until now. Fitting for those promiscuous nobles, they certainly wouldn’t have used it for good purposes.

“Haa, haa, haa, haa, haa…”

Thanks to that, not only did I show Ethan my underwear look first thing in the morning, but I also witnessed Ethan’s naked body fresh out of the shower, so it took a little more time for me to calm my emotions that had been stirred up for unnecessary reasons from the morning.