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[Translator - Hestia]
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Chapter 18: The Unexpected Visitor on a Late Night
Steam was rising from the bathroom, and I felt like I was dreaming.
If this were my past life, I might have been the center of an idol group, but here stood an ultra-beautiful girl with a cold aura, covering herself with only a towel as she stepped into the bathroom.
Though she covered her essential parts with the towel, Lana’s incredible figure was fully visible to my eyes.
Her breasts were as large and full as Nova’s or Sharon’s, her hips sculpted like a work of art, and her thighs—toned and firm—looked like they had been trained for her secret work as an assassin.
I was genuinely 100% flustered like a child and shouted.
“La—Lana!? What’s going on all of a sudden!?”
“As I just said, I’m here to scrub your back, my lord.”
“I can do it myself!!”
When I bathed, I liked to relax alone. In a lord’s life, where there were always people around, this was the only time I wanted to have to myself.
Lana stared at me expressionlessly, then spoke plainly.
“To be honest, under the princess’s orders, I’m here to seduce you.”
Wait, she just said that straight-up!?
Lana’s blunt honesty left me speechless.
What should I do!?
At this rate, I felt like I was going to be completely devoured by Lana.
Honestly, if someone like her, an ultra-beautiful girl, took me over, I wouldn’t even mind. But if that happened, I saw a future where I’d be trapped in the princess’s schemes, suffering terribly, and somehow ending up dead at the hands of Nova and Sharon.
As I stepped back to create some distance, Lana tilted her head and spoke with a confused look.
“Could it be… my lord, that you find me suspicious?”
Her words made me realize she thought I was resisting her seduction because I doubted her intentions.
Just as I was about to answer yes, Lana spoke first.
“Don’t worry. I am a pure maiden, and I’m always ready to dedicate myself to you, my lord.”
“That’s not the point!!”
She just turned me into some trash who only wants virgins!
Lana’s mind game broke my composure, and I ended up shouting.
Her confused gaze only grew deeper at my reaction.
After a moment’s thought, she spoke again.
“If that’s not it… could it be… my lord, that you prefer men?”
“Of course not!! I’m a 100% heterosexual man who likes women!!”
I lost my calm again and blurted it out in frustration.
No! I’m a beloved lord. I can’t lose my poker face over something like this!!
Just as I felt shame over shouting twice, the bathroom door suddenly burst open, and the guards rushed in.
“My lord! What’s going on!?”
“We heard a loud noise and came running!!!”
In an instant, the bathroom was filled with me, Lana, and the guards.
My precious alone time was shattered in that moment.
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After sending the guards away, I dressed and headed to the sitting room with Lana, who was also dressed.
Lana still wore her usual cool, expressionless face, but I noticed her cheeks had flushed slightly—maybe she was a little embarrassed herself.
“I’m sorry for making you uncomfortable, my lord. Real situations really are different from the academy.”
“Do they actually teach that at the academy?”
Did they really teach how to wash a lord’s back or how to seduce someone?
Without hesitation, Lana answered my question.
“Yes, they do. I learned it seven months ago in the servant department. For practice, the academy even invited professional courtesans from the capital as instructors to demonstrate.”
“Ah... I see.”
That was information I didn’t really want to know.
Is it really okay to teach that at the academy?
Before I could think of what to say next, Lana looked genuinely worried and asked me.
“Am I perhaps not to your taste? If not, I can talk to Lumiel and request someone else.”
“No! You are exactly my type!”
This time, I answered without hesitation.
Lana was my type.
Back in my previous life, I didn’t spend much money on in-game purchases, but the one character I went all out to get was Lana.
Hearing my clear answer, Lana blushed, looking both embarrassed and happy she spoke.
“Thank you for saying that so clearly. My confidence is a little... restored.”
Feeling the situation had calmed down, I spoke firmly to her.
To be a beloved lord, and for my own personal reasons from the past, I never forced my servants into any kind of sexual acts.
“Let me be clear, Lana. I don’t ask my servants to do things like that.”
“I’m sorry, my lord, but I don’t quite understand.”
Lana honestly looked confused by my words.
With serious eyes, she spoke.
“You are my lord. You have the right to do whatever you want with me, granted by the princess herself.”
“No, I never received that kind of permission from the princess. I just hired a maid with exceptional skills.”
That’s how it was in World Archive, and basically how servants thought in this era. But I never saw her as a tool.
As long as someone is alive, no one is a tool.
But just saying that wasn’t enough for her to truly understand, so I decided to try a different approach.
“You told me you’d do anything for me, right?”
“Yes, that’s correct, my lord.”
I stood up from my seat.
As I headed back to my room, I said—
“Then get some rest tonight. Tomorrow, you’ll go out with me. There’s somewhere I need to take you.”
“Understood.”
I made my way to the bedroom, and Lana gave me a polite maid’s bow in response.
I had a feeling tomorrow would be a busy day for both of us.
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“My lord… What is this place?”
“This is where you’ll be working during the day from now on.”
The next day, I took Lana with me and headed there.
When Lana saw the place, she looked completely stunned—and honestly, it had only been two days since she arrived.
It was a『School』.
“From now on, on weekdays during the day, you’ll teach children here at Cron School.”
In World Archive, there’s a content feature called ‘Memorial’ that unlocks once you reach relationship rank 100 with someone.
It’s a side story where you get to see the other person’s true feelings. Naturally, I had already seen Lana’s story.
Despite her cool demeanor and versatile skills, Lana was just an ordinary girl on the inside.
She had dreams. She had things she wanted to do.
But the Ansus family didn’t allow that.
As a proud servant family, the Ansus clan raised her to be the ultimate maid—serving as a powerful asset to countless lords across many story routes.
Yet, in none of those routes did she ever have her own happy ending.
At least, in the Memorial story, she shared a bit of her true feelings with me—and I couldn’t forget them.
She said that when she was young, she wanted to be a ‘Teacher.’
“That’s impossible. I have to serve you, my lord.”
When I said that, she flat-out refused.
And I refused her refusal.
“This is how you serve me.”
I looked toward the school.
Though I had invested and expanded it a little, there was still a long way to go.
The facilities aside, the biggest shortage was real, properly trained teachers.
“There aren’t enough teachers in Cron’s schools. Even if experienced elders take the role, they can’t compare to properly educated instructors.”
There were limits when relying on elders with years of experience.
I’d heard stories that during class, they’d drift off talking about how great they were ‘back in the day.’
We needed someone with advanced, proper education.
“Luckily, there’s one smart teacher here who recently studied at the capital’s academy.”
“My lord…”
“Do you still need me to give an order?”
Lana sighed with no choice but to comply.
Looking me in the eye, she said—
“Understood. But I’ll return to the castle in the afternoons to serve you.”
“Good. Then make sure you teach the children well from now on, Teacher Lana.”
“You won’t have to worry about that.”
At my words, Lana smiled faintly with confidence.
She spoke, as we walked toward the school.
“Because I am the perfect maid.”
At that moment, she was smiling for real.
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A week had passed since Lana arrived in Cron.
She felt more confused about her emotions than ever before in her life.
Following orders, she had come to serve the Cron family’s territory. Like her other siblings, she had expected to devote her life to her designated lord—her master.
She expected to lose her precious virginity on the very first day, just like her sister Ain had warned—caught up in the lord’s desires.
But even though she came fully prepared with every kind of contraception just in case, what actually awaited her were productive days spent teaching.
During the day, she went to school to teach the children, and by afternoon, she returned to the castle to serve her lord. Some days, her work as a teacher even took up more time than her duties as a maid.
‘Is this really okay?’
She wondered, but at the same time, she found herself enjoying those moments spent teaching the children.
She was amazed that she could still find joy in something.
‘My heart races when I think about Lord Calyx. What could this mean?’
At the academy, her seniors had shared countless horrible stories about lords.
So she had steeled herself, fully expecting that if she entered the bath naked, Lord Calyx would take advantage of her in every way imaginable.
Though prepared, the idea of having her first experience like that was something she didn’t want, no matter who she was.
But Lord Calyx didn’t treat her like a tool.
He didn’t reduce her to that. Instead, he helped her chase the faint, forgotten dreams from her past.
Thinking of Lord Calyx made Lana’s heart beat faster, and for reasons she couldn’t explain, she felt a pang of guilt toward him.
She promised herself she would one day offer an apology and a gift.
As she prepared for bed, a sound caught her attention.
Bang—
It was a faint ripple of magical energy.
So faint, even a wizard would struggle to sense it.
This was the kind of magic that assassins emit when trying to hide their presence.
Hiding an ice-cold gaze, Lana quietly rose and dressed.
Silently, she opened the door and stepped into the moonlit, quiet corridor.
It was time to welcome a guest.
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[Translator - Hestia]
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