Chapter 804
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 804
That left only one option.
The only thing to do was get Vanessa used to it, right?
But I see. A simple kiss isn’t enough.
In that case, the only method left is to do the same thing over and over again until she gets accustomed to it, isn’t it?
With that thought, I immediately unbuckled Vanessa’s belt.
“What are you doing!”
For once, even Vanessa couldn’t maintain her composure, her voice rising slightly.
However, perhaps thinking that her shouting would be enough to stop me, she didn’t try to physically block my hands.
But what could I do? I had no intention of stopping.
Pretending to listen but not really, I moved my hands quickly, unfastening her belt and pulling her pants down to mid-thigh.
“Wh-! In a place like this…!”
As you could probably guess from the fact that I had summoned Vanessa by calling her name into the air, we weren’t inside a room.
Every room in this mansion was, by default, perfectly soundproofed.
Because of that, even the great Vanessa seemed completely unprepared for me to go this far, her body freezing solid.
Right. I can’t just start here. It’s not like she’s a pervert like Diana.
No, wait. I wouldn’t suddenly do this outside even if it were Diana. For real.
Left with no choice, I opened the door to a nearby room and pulled Vanessa inside with me.
“There, better?”
“It is not!”
At my shameless words, Vanessa shot back, hastily trying to pull her pants up.
Of course, since I was holding them down to prevent her from doing just that, her attempt was futile.
“…Let go.”
If we kept up this power struggle, her pants would just end up ripping.
Vanessa, knowing this as well, issued a stern warning in a voice that was starting to sound genuinely angry.
“No.”
“As I said before, I am currently a butler.”
But I coolly refused, and a small vein popped on Vanessa’s forehead.
I wonder if she’s thinking, ‘I can’t just smack him one.’
Her face was angry enough to make me think so, but Vanessa still tried to suppress her rage, speaking calmly.
“Doesn’t matter.”
“…Hah?”
But when I gave her the same reply again, Vanessa finally glared at me with a look colder than eternal snow.
Right, if I don’t explain myself soon, I might actually get hit.
“Fine. Even if you become my woman, you’ll continue your work as a butler, and I have to respect that. I understand that much.”
“A person who understands that would…”
“But. That’s for normal times. A situation like this is an exception.”
“What do you mean, ‘a situation like this’? Are you referring to the situation where you, Master Guwon, are in heat?”
Wow. Listen to her.
She’s always been the type to say what’s on her mind, but it seems she’s truly angry now.
“No. I’m talking about your attitude toward me. Let’s be frank. Are you angry about what I did to you down there?”
“Yes.”
Now’s the time for my counterattack. With that thought, I threw out the question, and Vanessa nodded without a hint of hesitation.
Uh, huh? Wait a minute, Ms. Vanessa? That’s not the answer I was expecting.
“R-Right. You must be a little angry. So, is that why you’ve been acting this way since yesterday? Because you’re angry? You didn’t come to greet me, you’ve been avoiding my gaze, refusing to talk, and you didn’t even come when I called. You’re not just failing in our relationship, you’re failing at the butler duties you hold so dear. Is it really because you’re angry?”
Though momentarily flustered, I immediately pressed her again.
This is Guwon you’re talking to. A man once said to be such a smooth talker that if he fell into water, only his mouth would float.
…That’s not a compliment? I know that much!
“……”
And just as I expected, Vanessa couldn’t answer.
“It’s not, is it? You’re just embarrassed, right? And if you’re still like this after so much time has passed, it means time alone won’t solve the problem, doesn’t it? So the only choice is to force you through it until you’re no longer embarrassed, right?”
Seeing her reaction, I thought, ‘This is my chance,’ and pushed her even harder.
Nice. That’s me. I’m doing great.
“…You could just promise not to do that kind of thing anymore…”
“Even if you’re on duty, I can’t even properly make eye contact with my own woman. That’s painful. For me, at least, solving this problem is a much higher priority than your butler duties. Restoring the relationship with my woman is the most important thing to me!”
Vanessa tried to say something in the middle, but I quickly cut her off and kept talking.
“Ugh…!”
At that, the anger finally vanished completely from Vanessa’s face.
No, her face was even starting to turn a little red.
No matter how much she pretended to be cool and aloof, the fact remained that Vanessa liked me.
There was no way she wouldn’t be happy to hear me say that our relationship was more important than anything else.
“Is that not the case for you, Vanessa?”
“…That is.”
Riding that momentum, I naturally seized control of the conversation.
From the one being interrogated to the one doing the interrogating.
“It’s the same for you, isn’t it? You don’t want to be unable to look me in the eye forever, do you? Am I wrong?”
“…You’re not wrong… but…”
When the person you love asks you something like that, no one can say no.
The same was true for Vanessa, and she shook her head.
But she was still hesitant about doing this while on duty, and she tried to add something else.
“That’s why we have no choice but to do this right now.”
Before Vanessa could finish her sentence, I quickly cut in, grabbing both sides of her underwear.
I tried to pull them straight down, but Vanessa blocked me by covering the space between her legs with her hands, preventing the underwear from coming off completely.
When I raised my gaze to look at her, Vanessa met my eyes with a blank expression.
Ms. Vanessa? In my personal opinion, the slightly embarrassed look from before was much better. Could you please go back to that?
“If you would just say you will refrain from such actions in the future, that would be sufficient.”
As if she couldn’t hear my inner voice, Vanessa proposed a compromise in a blunt tone that perfectly matched her expression.
Well, I guess I should be glad she doesn’t seem angry anymore.
Anyway, a compromise, huh?
In other words, what Vanessa was saying was this:
If I just promised not to do that kind of thing anymore, she would forget the embarrassing past of what happened “down there” and act as she normally did.
It wasn’t a bad compromise. Except for one single problem.
“…I can’t.”
That problem was that I had no confidence I could keep that promise.
I’d already finished deliberating on that matter long ago. In my head.
“…Pardon?”
At my answer, Vanessa’s eyebrow twitched slightly.
“I’m a man who doesn’t make promises he can’t keep.”
“……”
At my bold declaration that followed, Vanessa’s expression hardened.
“W-What can I do! You know my personality, don’t you?! I’m just going to do it again later anyway! Besides, I only get to see that side of you at times like that, so it can’t be helped! I want to see your different sides! If you showed me that side of you normally, I might have considered promising not to do it again, but you can’t, can you?! Go on, try it!”
“There is no way I could show that side of myself normally!”
But as I retorted with a completely serious face, Vanessa’s cheeks began to blush.
Her voice rose slightly again, but this time, it was clearly out of embarrassment, not anger.
“See! So it can’t be helped! Just give up!”
“You…! Huuu…”
As I spoke with a hint of stubbornness, Vanessa looked like she was about to say more, but then she suddenly let out a deep sigh.
“…Do as you please.”
After a moment of silence, Vanessa finally muttered the words as if spitting them out.
Did she decide that arguing like this would lead nowhere?
“You just said I can do as I please, right?”
“……”
Hey now, Ms. Vanessa. Don’t clench your fists and tremble while glaring at me.
“If you are just going to do it again later even if you promise, then there is nothing more I can do. …Unless we were to break up.”
“We’re not breaking up, right?!”
The moment the word “break up” left Vanessa’s lips, I immediately clung to her.
Even I wasn’t willing to take that much of a risk.
Of course, being unable to have that kind of intense sex with Vanessa and never seeing her disheveled state again would be a huge, tremendous shame, but if the topic of breaking up came out, even I would have to swallow my tears and take a step back.
That’s why I clung to her reflexively as soon as I heard the words, but after thinking over what she’d said again, I realized she was saying she’d give up because she didn’t want to break up with me either.
“…Kuh. That is why… because I don’t want to… I am telling you to do it.”
As if to drive the point home, Vanessa slightly averted her gaze from my clinging form and mumbled in an uncharacteristically uncertain tone.
She doesn’t want to break up either, so she’s telling me to do as I please.
Only after hearing that could I finally let out a sigh of relief.
No, it wasn’t just a sigh; a goofy, silly grin started to spread across my face.
See? When it comes down to it, she likes me this much.
Alright. Now that I have Vanessa’s permission, shall I do as I please?
I tried to lower my hands, which were still gripping her underwear tightly.
But Vanessa’s hands were still blocking the space between her legs, so the underwear didn’t move.
“Um, Ms. Vanessa?”
“What is it?”
“You just told me to do as I please, didn’t you?”
“…I did not mean for you to do as you please right now. I meant that when I am with you as your woman, if you wish to do… that, you may do as you please.”
“So let’s have that relationship right now…”
“Right now, I am a butler.”
W-What? Didn’t we just settle this?
Why does it feel like time just rewound a few minutes?
“No, I’m saying that more important than your butler duties is properly…”
“Am I not properly making eye contact and speaking with you?”
“……”
C-Come to think of it, we are.
“Is there any further reason to continue this?”
“Since we’re already in a room…”
“No.”
“Tch.”
With her putting it like that, I had no more excuses, so I had no choice but to let go of her underwear.
Vanessa, with a blank expression, fixed her underwear and pulled up the pants that were down to her thighs.
“Ah, wait a second.”
But before Vanessa could perfectly readjust her pants, I slipped my hand into the loosened front.
“Heung?! Kuh…!”
As my fingers traced the surface of her underwear to check, Vanessa let out an involuntary, sexy moan.
She immediately glared at me with an incredibly cold expression, though.
But no matter how sharply that gaze pierced me, I just felt good.
Because she was a little wet.
In other words, despite everything, Vanessa wasn’t opposed to doing that kind of thing with me.
She had truly refused only because she was on duty as a butler.
“…Stop smiling.”
My smile must have bothered her, because Vanessa warned me as she fixed her pants and fastened her belt, but of course, the smile didn’t leave my face.
“What are you talking about? They say smiling brings good fortune. Come on, you too, Vanessa. Smile. Smile.”
“If you have no further business, I will be on my way.”
Vanessa shot me a slightly annoyed look before immediately trying to leave the room.
But I couldn’t just let her run away.
“Ah, wait.”
“…What is it now?”
“Come to think of it, I didn’t actually call you to talk about this.”
“…You have some business with me?”
“Yeah. I’m going to the palace.”
“……”
Hey, Ms. Butler. Do something about that expression. That’s not a look a servant should be giving.
Well, it’s a blank expression, but still.
“I’m not just saying this because I’m in heat.”
Saying it like this might make me sound like a thief outing himself, but it’s really not like that.
It’s just that what you said earlier is stuck in my head.
I really did call you because I was planning to go to the palace, you know?
I just changed my approach a little after seeing your attitude.
Well, either way, the conclusion is that we’ll end up having sex, so maybe it can’t be helped that it looks that way.
If you’re going to blame someone, blame the Saint’s traits, no, blame the Goddess who made the world this way!
“…I am aware. It is about time we should go.”
Fortunately, it seemed she read some sincerity in my desperate gaze, as Vanessa said nothing more.
“Then I will have the carriage prepared.”
“Ah, and.”
Just as she was about to leave the room for real this time, I called out to her once more.
“What is it now?”
Don’t give me that ‘you’re so persistent’ look.
Well, it’s a blank expression, but I can read it all.
“You’re not going to tell me you don’t have any time cleared because you’ll be missing work to go to the palace, are you?”
“…I never said I had time cleared.”
When I said that, Vanessa fell silent for a moment, then replied with what looked like a forced blank expression.
Vanessa, my dear. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a blank expression?
“You do, don’t you?”
“……”
Except for the day Diana had yielded to her, Vanessa hadn’t come down to my floor once.
She could have had time alone with me, but she gave it up herself.
But there was no way our perfect butler, Ms. Vanessa, wouldn’t have adjusted her schedule to make time for us to be alone when I came upstairs.
Even if she was so embarrassed she could barely look me in the face.
“Let’s do the rest then. So, when is it?”
“…The day after tomorrow.”
At my shameless question, Vanessa finally left that small reply in a tiny voice and hastily exited the room.
Honestly, she’s so stubborn.
Anyway, I guess that’s another matter resolved.
As urgent as Matilda’s situation was, I was worried about how things would turn out since I didn’t resolve this with Vanessa right after seeing her. I’m glad it went well.
Alright, now I should call Silvia over.
Well, while I was doing my special training, Silvia had free time on her off days and must have visited the palace often, so she might not have any particular reason to go this time.
Unless, that is, she’s going to the palace for the reason I’m thinking of.
And sure enough, when I suggested going to the palace this time, Silvia immediately trotted along after me.
This is just making my suspicions grow deeper.
I was trying to dismiss it as just my own ego, but when the situation fits this perfectly, I can’t help but be suspicious.