NOVEL NEXT chapter 298
298 – Maria’s Confession (2)
The head maid spoke to me in a solemn voice.
“Viscount, Your Majesty is waiting inside here.”
“Thank you for guiding me, Chief Maid. But I have some questions…”
“Ask anything. “I will answer anything I can.”
She swallowed and asked a question.
“Why on earth do you say, Your Highness, that you are meeting me in a corner like this? “Isn’t this place quite far from our military camp and too remote?”
This is a forest several hundred meters away from our base.
So, I said this because it was a place where no one seemed to know even if something happened here.
Wouldn’t it have been better to see it at Maria Barracks?
The head maid chuckled after hearing my story.
“Won’t the reason become clear in a little while? I’ll keep it a secret. “Your Majesty only ordered you to bring the Viscount here, and did not allow anything else.”
It 100% looks like they prepared a surprise party or something.
What on earth are you planning?
“I understand.”
The maid said with an exclamation as if she was deliberately emphasizing that she had forgotten.
“Ah, from now on, there will be no one here except Your Majesty and the Viscount. Because I’m also going to have an upset stomach in a hurry. “No matter what happens between you and Your Majesty, no one will know.”
Leaving behind her questionable words, the chief maid frowned as if she had a stomachache and quickly left the place.
“What, really?”
Just as I was wondering what on earth they were going to do, Maria, wearing a dress, came in front of me.
She There is an old saying that a woman who pretends to be discreet is the most ostentatious woman, and just as the saying goes, the dress Maria, who was usually discreet, wore today was extremely vulgar.
A cloth as wide as her scarf barely covers both of Maria’s breasts, while openly showing off her cleavage.
Judging from the way her cleavage is visible, it appears she is not wearing any underwear.
And her skirt is so high that it reaches her ankles.
Her waist is slightly tightened, showing off the outline of her waist and pelvis perfectly.
This is not the same as exposing her naked body, but it seems more erotic than wearing plain underwear.
‘Isn’t that what Dalton says the high-class prostitutes usually wear?’
Maria blushed when she saw me.
“The head maid is talking nonsense, Martin. No matter what happens, you won’t know. “Isn’t that too vulgar an expression?”
No, Maria, the dress you are wearing is more s*xy and explicit.
To put it a little more vulgarly, the moment you appeared in front of me in that dress, I became a moving embodiment of s*xual desire… What made me like this was purely your dress and your body hidden behind it.
If one of the three, Luciana, Karin, or Hilde, had seduced me wearing this outfit, unless they had some really urgent work to do, they would have put it all off and started having s*x right away.
However, although Maria and I are in a relationship that will soon be in a relationship, we are not yet in a relationship, so we should not be swept away by the surging desire.
‘I don’t think I’ll get hit in the face even if I get swept away and try to do it right away.’
But anyway, the opponent is the princess, so now is not the time.
“There’s this dress. Doesn’t it seem like clothes that are openly trying to seduce men? I just told the head maid that I wanted to meet you, Martin. She dressed me like this. “I’m so embarrassed just wearing it.”
Then, every time Maria’s eyes met mine, her face turned red like an apple and she repeatedly looked away.
She asked cautiously, stuttering her words uncharacteristically.
“I don’t think these clothes suit me, do you?”
Although it is a dress that cannot be worn unless you have a very good body, Maria’s body is more beautiful than most of her works of art.
‘Reason is trying to escape. Dangerous.’
So I swallowed my saliva and answered.
“Well, it suits you so well that I can’t take my eyes off it. “I’m so nervous that I can’t even say that it suits me so well.”
Maria smiled brightly after hearing what I said.
“When the maid recommended this outfit, she said that Martine would like it, so I barely wore it because I felt embarrassed… I guess I will have to wear it often from now on.”
Then he came up to me and whispered in my ear.
“Of course, only in front of you. Martin.”
The opposite s*x is trying to run away even more. It’s dangerous.
Should I honestly say that I don’t think I can do it anymore and go to relieve this boiling desire?
No, should I confess to Maria now and just go up the stairs?
As I was waging an endless battle between desire and reason, Maria showed me a gentle smile.
“Before that, Martin. “The reason I called you today is because I have something important to say.”
My desire calmed down to some extent when Maria showed a serious expression that was different from before, something you would only see on a battlefield.
“Now it’s as if the civil war is over. Well, if anything remains, at most it will be a small-scale rebellion by the nobles of the Mathias camp. “There won’t be much fighting.”
There is no longer any royal family to fight against Maria, so there is no human to become the focal point of the civil war.
As Maria said, it would be safe to say that the war is already over.
“And even that small-scale rebellion will collapse on its own after I ascend to the throne as emperor. Even those who resist will be able to go into exile with their property preserved if they surrender their territory obediently. If you do not accept it, you will be killed by my vassals before I can move my army.”
It is the law of the world that rebellions, other than those that arise for the sake of survival due to difficulties in making a living or being harassed by inspectors, self-destruct if they have no chance of winning.
“So everything is over. “It’s been a long time, Martin.”
“Yes, it was really long.”
At first, he fought under Margrave Estelle, and then because the guy Otto he was serving was a human scum, he eventually persuaded Dalton to betray him.
It took several years from the time they subdued Otto to the victory in the final civil war.
“But it’s all over, Martin.”
“Yes, it was really long.”
After Maria took a breath, she looked at me and said.
“So, I want you to marry me.”
…… No, shouldn’t a proposal be done by a man rather than a woman?
Of course, there are many political factors at stake with Maria’s position, so she would have to formally propose to me.
“Martin, you may not know. Born as a princess, I was always alone. Before her father, the Emperor, passed away, she was destined to be sold to another country for an arranged marriage simply because she was born as a princess. Even the nobles did not get close to me, and the Emperor was not a very kind father.”
High-ranking nobles have to work a lot, and because they are busy having banquets and having fun at night, there are few parents who love their children to death.
Therefore, the children of high-ranking people are generally raised neglected by their parents.
Strictly speaking, they are raised by a tutor or nanny.
“The other princesses accepted that fate, recognized the life of being a tool for marriage, and tried only to live elegantly. I didn’t want to live like that, so I tried my best to learn how to wield a sword and how to handle military service as much as possible. My father thought it was a small rebellion against him, but it wasn’t necessarily a rebellion. And his efforts were rewarded, and he was able to become emperor in the body of a woman.”
Like the daughters of noble families, all that high-class women learn throughout their lives is how to satisfy their husbands.
If you are sold into an arranged marriage and can capture the heart of your husband, you can live a happy life.
In general, men tended to stay away from their wives who were related to them out of political interests and without love.
‘So nobles often joke that in times of crisis, they only take their children and concubines and run away?’
Then, there is no meaning in life other than enjoying the power as the mistress of the 00 family, so everyone becomes immersed in a power struggle that is so serious that it is shameful.
Since Maria was a child, she saw her predecessor, the empress, living that kind of life, and she seems to have decided that she would not live that way herself.
“But as an individual, I am happier than becoming emperor.”
Maria suddenly wrapped her arms around me and pressed her face against my chest.
“I met you, Martin, who understands and accepts me as I am. From the moment you first said you would be loyal, you only cared about my happiness rather than looking for opportunities to earn more rewards. “Your words and attitude changed me.”
She never thought that what she said to win Maria’s favor would end up like this.
“So, from now on, I will also live for your happiness, Martin. Everything I have is also yours. I give you the rest of my life. I want to live my future life with you. “I have become something that can live with you.”
Maria’s love is quite, no, very heavy.
What kind of love confession in the world can be this heavy?
Everything that is mine is yours, and all you have to do is live by my side…
“But I am a woman whose desire for exclusiveness is stronger than anyone else’s, so I might get jealous if she doesn’t look after me because she is attracted to another woman. Please don’t do that.”
Then Maria kissed my lips.
“This is my confession, will you accept it, Martin?”
After hearing her nod, I looked into Maria’s eyes and slowly approached her and pressed my lips to hers for a long time.
“Of course, I won’t let you go forever.”
“If you don’t keep that promise, I will lock you in my bedroom and not let you leave.”
For a moment, a shiver ran down my spine.
In the meantime, Maria blushed and spoke in front of me.
“If I wanted to, I would give my first child right now, but I am the emperor. So, you must remain chaste until the wedding. Just be patient. Instead, after that, I will accept your love as much as I want.”
After finishing her words, Maria left immediately.
And then the head maid looked at me and smiled meaningfully.
After receiving the princess’s heavy yet sweet marriage proposal, whenever I closed her eyes, the process of receiving her marriage proposal and the moment of the deep kiss came to mind, and I was unable to do anything that day.