episode_0294

I held onto my pounding heart, lying on the bed with my eyes closed for a moment. When I opened them again, the view outside the window had changed from the dark night sky to the blue morning sky.

Checking the time on the hourglass, it was roughly around 6:30 in the morning.

It was quite difficult to fall asleep with my heart pounding, but once I did, it seemed like I was sleeping soundly as usual.

“In the end, morning has come.”

-Thump, thump, thump.

Thinking about ‘what I have to do today’ instead of the usual tasks of a full-time maid, my heart started racing like crazy.

Experiencing the first encounter between a man and a woman in two lifetimes, not just the first time in this life. Even if I had the chance to be intimate with a woman when I was a man, I wondered if my heart would have raced this much. I cautiously guessed that it might not have been to this extent.

But now, there was no escaping. After making Edan go through so much trouble, it would be shameless of me to be the only one to run away.

So, I had no choice but to accept it calmly as if it were nothing. If I was going to do it, I might as well do it before the semester starts to eliminate the possibility of any inconvenient situations arising.

“I heard that the first experience… is quite painful.”

It’ll be okay… right? After all, it’s Edan.

While it’s said that breaking the maidenhead is painful, that’s only when the act is not done properly. It didn’t apply to me and Edan, who had shared intimate moments many times with just the ‘act’ alone.

After it’s sufficiently lubricated, it shouldn’t be that painful. …Probably.

“…I’m a little nervous.”

I’ll prepare as much as possible before inserting it… but is there a way to make it less painful?

It’s not that I’m afraid of the pain, it’s just that first experiences are like that. Every woman in the world instinctively wants to package it as a good memory.

And I was also a little worried about the size of the object Edan had… Would it be too big? No matter how well-prepared and inserted, it couldn’t be painless to have an object of that size enter the body.

“Would it be better if I take the initiative from my side…?”

If I’m the one on top rather than underneath, wouldn’t that be a little better?

If I can move on my own, the situation might be better. At least I won’t keep getting penetrated in a painful state.

Coming to that conclusion in my mind, I quickly got up from the bed and changed into my maid uniform. Just like the saying goes, ‘pull out the horn while it’s still short,’ it’s better to do it quickly when you think of it.

***

On the same morning, in Edan’s bedroom.

“…In the end, it’s morning.”

The illegitimate son of the Blackwood family, who had stayed up all night, lay on the bed and muttered helplessly with almost half-closed eyes.

“To be so restless that you can’t even sleep because of the excitement of experiencing it for the first time, it’s not like you’re a child…”

Even he found it absurd how trivial his insomnia was.

Of course, there was some justification for his first experience being with his first love, whom he had been secretly admiring since childhood, but it was still a bit embarrassing to talk about it openly.

He even thought that it might have been better to just do it last night. His plan to take a day off and recover his condition before releasing was also gradually being disrupted.

Furthermore, as it was a rare occasion for both the release and himself to have their first experience, he had also made some slight date plans, but with his current condition, it seemed better to just rest at the mansion today. Resting now would allow him to somehow regain his strength by evening and be able to have a proper time with Release.

Deciding to take a short nap now, Ethan thought that he could just tell Release when she came into the room to wake him up. Or maybe the observant Release would see him asleep and let him rest more on her own.

With these thoughts in mind, as Ethan closed his eyes and tried to quietly drift off to sleep, a few knocks on the door followed by a familiar voice were heard outside his room.

-Knock, knock, knock.

“Ethan, it’s Release.”

“…Yes, come in.”

-Creak.

Although he felt a bit puzzled by Release’s visit one hour earlier than his usual waking time, it wasn’t too bad for Ethan.

Since he had already decided to stay in bed and get more sleep today, it was better to convey this fact a little earlier.

“You woke up early, Ethan.”

“…Yes, by chance.”

Ethan couldn’t bring himself to say that he had stayed up all night. Saying so would indirectly confess how much he had been looking forward to his first experience with Release today.

He would have been able to honestly say such things to any other maid, but he couldn’t bring himself to tell the truth to the one he had feelings for.

“Um, Release.”

“Yes, Ethan.”

“…I’m feeling tired today, so I’ll skip breakfast in the kitchen.”

“Oh, I already informed them about that, so you don’t need to worry.”

“Oh, okay. As expected of Release… Huh?”

Feeling strange at Release’s words that he had already mentioned what he just thought of in the morning, Ethan was taken aback. However, his exclusive maid shamelessly continued to undress and started speaking again.

“And… Perhaps for about four hours, no other maid or servant will come into the room, so you don’t need to worry.”

-Swish.

“Wait a minute, Release?!”

“Yes, Ethan.”

“What are you doing right now? Why are you suddenly undressing…?”

“Well, why do you think?”

“….”

It was too obvious to answer why.

The same reason he had desperately tried during the duel with his father.

“If a young man and woman undress in a room, isn’t it something you know well, Ethan?”

“It’s still morning, Release. Usually, these things are done in the evening or at night…”

“It’s the morning after you’ve had enough rest, Ethan. I believe you have relieved the fatigue from yesterday’s duel with the master over the past night.”

“….”

Sadly, he hadn’t relieved it at all.

In fact, he even had some muscle pain. The accumulated fatigue in his muscles usually hit him a few hours after he moved his body.

However, whether she knew his feelings or not, Release was casually undressing and quickly turned into her underwear.

“How do I look, Ethan?”

“H-how…”

“My outfit. Doesn’t it look a bit different from usual?”

“….”

Indeed, Release was wearing slightly different underwear than usual.

Although she was wearing black underwear that matched the color of her stockings, the style of the underwear was quite different from usual.

In the mansion, instead of plain black underwear given to the maids, it was lace embroidered with patterns, a bit lewd…no, a bit more luxurious underwear.

“It’s, it’s a bit different. When did you buy such underwear?”

“I made it myself. It wasn’t as difficult as I thought once I started.”

“You, you made it yourself…? That…?”

“Yes. I felt like I might need it someday. And it seems like today is the day to wear it, Lord Ethan. It’s like a kind of lucky underwear.”

“Lucky underwear…?”

“Do you like it?” Lilyss asked with a smile, saying the same words casually while looking at herself.

Her slightly revealing underwear, which seemed to be slightly see-through, made it feel more provocative than being naked.

“….”

*gulp*

“I’m glad you like it.”

Ethan’s heart started pounding like a carriage falling off a cliff as Lilyss blushed and smiled in response.

A moment that felt like a dream he had drawn in his mind since a very young age. Ethan’s body reacted involuntarily to Lilyss’s beautiful yet provocative gestures in front of him, despite the deep sense of embarrassment.

“Um, Lilyss.”

“Yes, Lord Ethan.”

“Are you really going to do this now?”

“Are you going to embarrass me this much and then try to run away, Lord Ethan?”

“…I didn’t say anything, but you undressed on your own.”

“But since you didn’t stop me, it’s essentially the same as you agreeing, Lord Ethan.”

“….”

Ethan missed the timing to react due to his embarrassment about the daring underwear, which was different from usual, and found it too pathetic to retort.

“Lilyss, I’m sorry to say this after you’ve come this far.”

“….”

“As I said before, I’m tired now and need some time to think. So, could you wait until dinner, if possible?”

“It’s okay, Lord Ethan. Even if you just stay still, I’ll take care of everything.”

“No, that’s not the issue…”

*flutter*

“And unlike with Lord Ethan, your ‘Lord’ seems to have a slightly different meaning.”

“….”

Ethan, who was caught expressing his emotions while quietly getting up from under the blanket that Lilyss had casually lifted, couldn’t deny that his sexual desire had overcome his fatigue. He couldn’t bring himself to refuse Lilyss’s touch on his body.