Sage Monarch

Translator: Kurehas.h.i.+ Aiko

Chapter 1 PART 2

For the reasons unknown to him, his life as a Princess's guard began with difficulty.

For the time being he was standing guard in front of the entrance to her room and was carefully looking around, because when he tried to enter her room, Reaina got mad at him.

Maids who work at the castle rarely even look at the boy and just pa.s.s him by. He felt a little bit embarra.s.sed, being treated like some kind of background decoration.

"Fufu, please continue to do your best."

His only salvation were Diana's occasional kind words.
However, the Chief Maid was also very busy, so she just pa.s.sed by him like any other maids, and he would sigh in his heart every time she did.

"Huh, Rou…… Is that you……?"

While he was standing on his post, one of the maids who was pa.s.sing by suddenly came to halt and spoke to him. She was a red-headed girl with twin tails, and she got closer to him while staring at his face.

"Eh……?"

Suddenly being called by his name, the boy stares at the maid's face in amazement, but he did not remember this kind of warm expression.

"Yeah, it is Rou without a doubt, what are you doing in this place?"

"Y, yes, I am Rou, indeed, but…… Umm……"

The girl flashes her big eyes with long eyelashes right in front of his face, and then continues to talk happily.
Apparently she was an acquaintance of his, so he looked at her and desperately tried to remember, but his eyes stopped at the deep valley in between her b.r.e.a.s.t.s, boldly peeping out of her unb.u.t.toned maid clothes. Her b.r.e.a.s.t.s were even more exposed than that of Diana's, and were bigger than that of a average girl of her age, pus.h.i.+ng the material of her uniform with rich curves.

Her limbs, b.u.t.tocks and thighs, as well as her b.r.e.a.s.t.s, had a healthy beauty full of youthfulness with slight traces of adulthood. Her skirt is extremely short, so it feels like you could see her panties at any time, and her legs extending from under it have to alluring roundness characteristic only to women.

Was she going to grow into a fine woman just like the Chief Maid in the future?

"What, don't tell me you have forgotten about me? I'm Karen, we played around together all the time when we were kids."

"Karen…… Huh, eeehhh!?"

When he heard that name, he remembered the girl who used to live next door to him when his parents were still alive.

(Karen…… She's so cute……)

Although he was still in shock at how beautiful his childhood friend had grown up to be, right now the image of the little girl in one corner of his memory and the image of the maid before his very eyes started to gradually overlap.

"K, Karen…… That Karen?"

"You finally remember? Geez, I knew it was you at the first glance. I knew that this newly appointed guard of Reainsama had to be Rou."

Karen laughs happily while hitting his hands with a *PON*. This brightly smiling girl was very active form a young age, often playing together with the boys. She was everyone's favorite leader.

In contrast, Rou was not a particularly prominent person, being more of an introvert type who was a complete opposite of Karen.

"I was on my way to work, so I'll be going now. I am also working here, so maybe we will meet each other again."

"Y, yeah. See you……"

Karen seemed to have remembered something, for she left in a panic while bowing down to Rou. Rou was somewhat taken aback by that. However, he also felt happy that he could meet her again in the near future.

He wondered if it was already an hour since he was standing guard here like that.

Unexpectedly, Reainsama came out of the room, accompanied by a maid.

However, the Princess simply ignored him and walked away.

"U, umm…… Reainsama, where are you……"

"Does it even matter?"

After watching Rou coming over to her in a hurry, Reaina continued on, giving him the cold shoulder.

"No, but for once, I need to stay by your side……"

"And I'm telling you…… There is no need for you to follow my every step."

"That is exactly why I….."

There was just no way that you could ask the person guarding you to stop doing that. Having a strong sense

"Reainsama, it is almost time for your bath……"

"Y, you don't have to tell me every single unnecessary detail!"

Having been reminded about her bath, the Princess snapped at her maid, and began to walk even faster.

The sound of quick steps and heels clicking on the floor echoes through the corridor.

"Don't tell me, are you going to follow me even inside the bathroom!?"

"Eh, it's, it's not that……"

Reaina stops in her tracks, and all hair on the boy's body scoop up form shock. Her beautiful golden rolls sway, and her big fruits wrapped in a milky white dress bounce and shake.

(Uhh……)

The gaze of the adolescent boy is naturally drawn to her abundant b.r.e.a.s.t.s, and the word 'bath' serves only to further his delusions. Even though he did not wanted to imagine the person standing before him naked, the thought surfaced in his mind and he had to shake it off quickly.

"I can see it in your eyes that you are thinking about something indecent."

"T, that's absurd! I will wait at the entrance……"

While glaring daggers at the boy who was shaking his hands vigorously, Reaina walked into the grand bath, leaving behind the sweet fragrance of her hair. The boy let out a deep sigh, following the silky blonde hair with his gaze.

"I wonder if I can really do this……"

Although he was a guard, the only thing that he ever did was to stand in front of the doors all day. Anyway, at the very least he could take a short break while she was taking her bath.

GASHAN ----!

He heard a loud noise, as if something heavy fell on the floor.

(D, don't tell that someone got in through the window!?)

In the exact same moment that the worst case scenario hit his head, the boy reflexively opened the door to the grand bath. The boy rushed straight into the bathroom, without saying a word or even looking at the things that the maids left in the changing room.

"Reainsama, are you alright!?"

The Princess was nowhere to be found in the main large room, so Rou jumped to the back of the room, opening a gla.s.s door that was covered in clouds of steam.

"Did something happen…… Ughuu!"

All at once, the hot air and sweet smell wrapped around his body, and suddenly he felt a severe wave of pain on his face. Something was thrown right at him, and the boy knight lost his balance and fell down to the stone floor, he then raised his eyes while rubbing his throbbing face with his hand.

"There is nothing wrong! Why did you even walked in!?"

"…… Eh, ehh…… What the……"

The grand bathroom's floor and walls were made out of stone, and the ceiling was made out of stained gla.s.s to let the light in. There were plenty of small swimming pools placed around the main bath which looked very luxurious, but there was no time for him to observe the surroundings.

There was the Princess right in front of him, with her face red as a beetroot, gripping onto the towel which she was using to cover her b.r.e.a.s.t.s and private parts. Her hair, normally glossy and golden, are now all moistened, sticking to her skin which turned into a nice cherry color thanks to the heat. However, both of her exposed shoulders were trembling due to anger.

"It is quite impressive that you wanted to peep so openly……"

"P-Peeping!? No, it's not like that…… This is…… There was this sound like the broken window, so…… I got worried and……"

He gradually realized that he made a terrible mistake.
The Princess would simply not listen to him rumbling like a complete fool. When he tried to pick up the water tank that he got hit with earlier, the blonde-haired girl roared at him.

"Get the h.e.l.l out here right this instant!!"

"R, right!"

The boy leaves the grand bath while avoid stepping on the water tank. His clothes got all sweaty and wet due to all the steam as he made his way to the corridor.

Making the Princess angry instead of impressing her, the boy's shoulders drop.

"Hey, what are you doing……"

He heard the voice of her childhood friend nearby, but right now he was not particularly pleased with this reunion.

"Geez, you are completely soaked. You'd better change quickly, or else you might catch a cold."

"S, sorry……"

Doing as Karen told him, he returned to his room to change his clothes, thinking that maybe this Princess was in no need for a guard after all.

He changed his clothes to some light knight attire and quickly headed back to the grand bathroom entrance, only to discover that the Princess was already nowhere to be seen. Even the maids had no idea where she went.

"Haa…… I knew it, she's gone……"

Even though he knew it was bad, he peeked inside the women's bath. She did not have a very good opinion to begin with, but now she might have even started to hate him.

Still, he just couldn't afford to give up on his mission, so he started to go about the castle in search for Reaina, while sighing deeply all the time.

He went to the Princess's private bedroom, the tower, the living area, and he could not possibly count all the bathrooms, living rooms, cafeterias, and maid's quarters.

In a short while, instead of finding the Princess's whereabouts, he got lost himself in this wide place.

Moreover, he could hear the beautiful voices of young girls and women coming from high and low, there was that sweet fragrance drifting all over the place, making him realize that this was indeed women's sacred garden.

For Rou, who up until now was living only with his fellow knights at the Order, it was a whole new world.

(Huh, where was it……)

For the time being he was trying to get back to his room, but the rows of similar-looking doors were lining up for eternity. A guard losing sight of the person he was supposed to protect, and getting lost in the castle to boot, it was so embarra.s.sing that he would not share this story with anyone else. And for someone who was not familiar with women, talking to any other maid beside all-knowledgeable Diana or Karen would require severe amounts of courage.

(I think it was somewhere around here……)

He continued down the corridor, trying to calm down his restless heart.

And so he arrived at the door he felt he had seen before. The luxury door looks just like Reainsama's door.

Since he made that mistake earlier, this time he remembered to knock properly and wait for any kind of response. As he thought, he almost immediately heard a voice saying [Please come in].

"Please excuse me! I am terribly sorry for what I did earlier!!"

As he entered the room, the boy lowered his head and started to apologize. He thought that if he apologized hard enough, the Princess would find it in her heart to forgive him for sure. But -----

"Eh, oh my……"

Her voice was very similar, but the girl who was sitting on the sofa in front of him was not Princess Reaina. He could see that her hair had the same gold color, but were not as glossy and were longer, reaching all the way to her waist or even her b.u.t.t.