I Became the Maid of the Lout Prince

T/N: This bonus chapter is sponsored by James B. (10/14).

“Anyway, as I said before, I don’t think we need to do that partner hunting with Lilith anymore. Now that Seriste has become a Saint, there’s no reason for Lilith and me to practice working together.”

“Yes, that’s good. In any case, there’s no chance of you taking Lilith away from me anymore.”

“I’m telling you, I never had any intention of taking her in the first place….”

While it felt like things had been resolved in a rather absurd way, the plan to make Seriste a Saint had been successfully completed.

I’m not sure if this could really be considered problem-solving, but well.

Anyway, the reason I still had the Saint’s power was purely to prepare for the ‘what if’ scenario where Seriste couldn’t awaken on her own, so now that Seriste had become a Saint by herself, it meant I no longer needed to prepare for that contingency.

I was free to keep the Saint’s power if needed. Free to give up the Saint’s authority whenever I wanted.

In fact, it meant I now had much more flexibility in my choices than Seriste, who had to remain a Saint as a member of the Hero’s party.

‘It’s just a troublesome power to keep anyway, and rather than risk causing misunderstandings in the story progression, it would be better to get rid of it quickly.’

I absolutely wanted to avoid events like being mistaken for the Saint instead of Seriste by some high priest, or having some demon being wary of me thinking I’m the Saint.

I’d been struggling to avoid getting involved in the main story until now, so there was no reason to keep the Saint’s power just because it seemed valuable and I’d end up getting entangled.

After all, while gaining the Saint’s qualification was difficult, losing the qualification was possible anytime if one wished.

I could just tear the mark of purity between my legs and my Saint’s qualification would….

‘No, wait. That’s not right.’

…Perhaps, it might not be so simple.

For me, who was a unicorn in my previous life, ‘losing my virginity’ was a matter that required careful and thorough consideration.

I wasn’t particularly attached to my ‘mark of purity’ at this point. Rather, I had thought countless times that I wanted to get rid of it if possible.

“Anyway, there’s something else we need to discuss. Actually, one of the revelations I received from the goddess was that in three days, in the Northern Forest….”

However, I needed to carefully consider the ‘method’ of removing my hymen. How I did this would determine whether my body in this world remained an ‘honorary virgin’ or became just a ‘loose woman.’

Actually, I had already decided in my mind how to lose my virginity long ago. For me, who had held a unicorn’s soul from my previous life until now, there was only ‘one’ ideal way to lose purity.

‘Indeed. If I’m going to do it, I’ll have to ask Ethan.’

Using fingers or tools to remove the mark of purity myself? That was absolutely forbidden for me as a unicorn since my previous life.

A heroine’s mark of purity should only disappear during her first time with the protagonist. Even if it wasn’t losing virginity to another man, this fundamental principle had to be maintained.

Some might think I’m perverted for saying this, but personally, this was one of my favorite scenes in protagonist-heroine relationships.

Specifically, the scene where the heroine loses her virginity to the protagonist’s member.

I liked the descriptions of the protagonist comforting the heroine who’s in pain during her first time, or the descriptions where it didn’t hurt much because of love but still emphasized how the protagonist’s member was the first to possess the heroine’s body. 

What mattered was the act itself of the heroine giving her virginity to the protagonist.

It felt like it showed how the heroine truly gave all her heart in love to the protagonist, which is why it was always one of my favorite scenes in my previous life.

‘Actually, there’s actually a separate reason why I became obsessed with this.’

The reason I became the most extreme of unicorns who would rage about non-virgin heroines in my previous life was because of a ‘virgin-claiming heroine’ I encountered in a novel I read in my previous life.

The novel itself was an ordinary harem story; it was such an ordinary novel that I don’t even remember its title now.

While the protagonist had relationships with multiple women, it was a novel for unicorns like me in that all the women who had relationships with the protagonist were virgins.

Among the various heroines who had relationships with the protagonist, there was exactly one heroine who didn’t feel pain during her first time, and when the protagonist asked why it didn’t hurt, she made an excuse about ‘it’ tearing while riding a bicycle, which he casually accepted.

Then, in a flashback scene occurring later on, it was revealed that it actually wasn’t her first time, and the bicycle excuse was just that – an excuse – as she actually had a previous boyfriend, and I coughed up blood when I saw that scene.

‘Ah, damn. Just thinking about it makes me angry again.’

Anyway, after taking severe mental damage from that novel, I simultaneously uploaded negative reviews on 12 different community sites to prevent other victims like me.

Since I couldn’t tolerate the existence of such works in reality, I kept mentioning it in major communities until I finally forced it to be discontinued.

I think I might have gone a bit too far, but it was self-defense, anyway. The author clearly said there would be no non-virgin heroines but then drifted from that.

Anyway, due to the mental damage I received then, my already unicorn-like virgin obsession became even more severe.

It got to the point where I would immediately drop a work if it didn’t show the mark of purity being torn during the first time, even if they emphasized ‘this heroine is a virgin’ within the work.

While Luminor Academy was a game I got into precisely because I learned it had virgin routes, in all other cases, it was quite a significant incident that made me drop things without consideration.

That mindset hasn’t changed even now that I’ve become a woman.

A woman’s first time must be with the protagonist.

The man who takes the woman’s first time must absolutely be the man who shared the first kiss, and if she’s a virgin heroine, she must never show her naked body to any man except family and the protagonist.

While Gyeongmwajogyegigwat was this world’s protagonist, that only applied to him and the members of the Hero’s party, and if there were a novel or game where I was the heroine, its protagonist would naturally have to be Ethan.

Only then could I have the qualification as the ‘virgin heroine’ that I had always ideally imagined in my mind.

‘Though I don’t think I can marry Ethan….’

I know that Ethan and I can’t be together due to family matters, noble circumstances, and various other issues.

However, even if I couldn’t marry him, I wanted the qualification of a heroine who maintains eternal chastity. That too, was one of my ideal forms of virginity.

A life where, though unable to be together due to status differences, she loved only one man her whole life, gave her first time to the man she first kissed, and after parting, never had relations with any other man, ending her life as a devoted single woman.

Well, that’s pretty good, isn’t it? To dream of such a future, the one to take my first time absolutely had to be Ethan.

The sooner Ethan took my first time, the better.

“…li.”

‘First of all, the Witch’s Forest is a terrible location for a first time. There are too many people here, and there are no spaces with soundproofing that can be used privately. To do it properly, we’d need to return to the Blackwood Estate or go back to the academy dormitory….’

“…Lili? Hey….”

‘But wouldn’t getting rid of it as soon as possible be the way to reduce the possibility of future problems? If so, maybe doing it quickly during the next guard duty might work. Lara and Lizzy won’t know what me and Ethan are doing since they’re focused on their test. …But, then, we might get caught by other men during the shift change. That would clearly disqualify me as a virgin by my standards.’

“…ing is over….”

‘Then, would it be okay to sneak into the forest right after our shift ends? Once a shift changes, there won’t be any traffic to the altar for a while, so if we do it quickly we might not get caught. I should always carry bug-repellent perfume just in case. …Ah, but if I suddenly drag Ethan into the forest, he might think I’m some kind of perverted crazy woman. Is there a way to naturally lead to the situation without being treated like a pervert….’

Pat.

“Lili?”

“Eeeek?!”

My nerves suddenly stood on end as someone’s hands grasped both my shoulders.

Fortunately, they relaxed again when I realized those hands belonged to Ethan.

“E-Ed? What’s the matter all of a sudden?”

“Nothing’s sudden – you weren’t responding even though I’ve been calling you for a while.”

“What? You were c-calling me?”

“Yes. The meeting’s over. The Hero and his party members already left the conference room. Including Lady Blaze.”

“……Ah.”

That’s right, we were in a meeting until just now.

I was so preoccupied with thinking about how to handle my mark of purity that I couldn’t focus on the meeting. Why did they suddenly have to bring up the story about Seriste becoming a Saint…

“Were there any important discussions during the meeting? I don’t remember much after hearing about Saint Seriste obtaining the Saint’s qualification….”

“The Hero guy did talk about some prophecy, but I heard everything, so it’s fine. I’ll explain your role to you later, Lili.”

“I’m sorry, Ed. I got lost in other thoughts….”

“It’s okay. It happens. You must be troubled in many ways too, Lili.”

“……”

Wh-What? How does he know I’m troubled right now?

Did my inner thoughts leak out somehow? How does he know about how I want to lose my virginity…

“You seemed not to care much about the Saint title until now, but surprisingly, you seem a bit unsettled about that part, too.”

“…What?”

“Until now, we thought only you were the Saint, but suddenly Saint Seriste became a Saint too, so you’re confused, right? You’re wondering what the Saint’s qualification you currently have means.”

“Ah….”

“It’s okay. Whether you’re a Saint or become not a Saint, to me, Lili, you will always be Lili. I liked you even before you were a Saint, and that won’t change even if you stop being one. So, whatever decision you make about the Saint’s qualification doesn’t really matter.”

“…Ah, yes. Thank you for saying that, Ed.”

Since Ed thought I was worried about my Saint’s qualification, I could only affirm his words with an awkward smile.

It was a hundred times better to let him misunderstand this way than to let him discover I was thinking about ‘how to lose my virginity’ in my head.

T/N

Honestly, the mere thought of it is making me uneasy. There are some R-19 chapters coming soon, after all, but I haven’t checked their contents just yet.

Thanks for reading, see you in the next one!