## Chapter 1149 – Elf Queen Shahrhan
I opened my eyes to find it was late dawn.
I immediately shot upright and performed a quick scan of my surroundings.
“…”
Shahrhan was asleep, sprawled face-down on the bed.
“Seriously, what the hell.”
Seriously, she must be in a lot of pain because she was sleeping with her butt exposed. Not even covered by a blanket, this crazy woman, really. I immediately and carefully covered her with the blanket.
Contrary to my suspicions, Shahrhan hadn’t been plotting anything nefarious during the night. No secret messages to the maids about my punishment or anything like that. There was no sign of any such activity.
It would be nice if she just behaved herself like this.
Anyway, I went into the bathroom attached to the room, washed my face and feet, and when I came out, the sun was rising.
Shahrhan was also awake.
“Ouch…”
Kneeling, she touched her butt.
“Does it hurt a lot?”
“N-no… I think it’s a little better than yesterday. It still hurts, though.”
“If it’s gotten a little better in just one day, that’s amazing.”
Is her recovery that strong?
Come to think of it, the swelling had gone down a bit.
“Well, I am an Elf Queen. My magic power is considerable… so my recovery is also excellent. At this rate, I’ll be fine soon.”
At first, she tried to use that staff to cast some kind of magic. It seemed Shahrhan was a mage-type queen.
“Then… I’m going to get dressed now.”
“Go ahead.”
I turned away for a moment, and Shahrhan began rummaging through a drawer. Soon, she said she was done. So I turned back, and…
“No.”
She was wearing a rather seductive outfit.
It was like she had wrapped her body in a long piece of cloth, with a bra-like top and a long, rectangular piece of fluttering fabric extending from below her breasts down to her thighs.
It covered her navel, but her waist and thighs on both sides were completely exposed. It was only held in place by a golden belt, making it extremely revealing.
She wore an ornate crown on her head and accessories adorned with gold and jewels on her exposed skin.
Whatever it was, it was a very revealing outfit.
“Is that all you have? What about what you wore yesterday?”
“T-the maids took that away… This is all I have in my room right now.”
I couldn’t understand why a queen would have such clothes.
“Please don’t say it’s strange. When meeting the World Tree, it’s necessary to expose as much skin as possible.”
“What?”
“But the Queen can’t just take her clothes off outside… so this is a way to maintain formality.”
Ah… I roughly understood.
It seemed that communicating with the World Tree worked best when one was in their natural state. But since she was the Queen, she couldn’t just strip, so she wore such revealing clothes.
“Then there’s no helping it. But you could have just called a maid and asked her to bring you some clothes.”
“I was thinking of minimizing the number of maids coming in here while you’re staying here…”
She was conscious of prying eyes.
“Then isn’t that inconvenient? You need at least a minimum number of people.”
“It’s okay. I won’t make you uncomfortable.”
“Me?”
“While you’re staying here, I’ll be your personal maid.”
What?
“My personal maid?”
“Yes. So please order me to do anything. If there’s anything uncomfortable, please tell me.”
“No, there’s no need for that. You don’t have to be my personal maid.”
“But…”
Shahrhan hesitated and said,
“To apologize for what happened yesterday… offering my body isn’t enough… so please allow me.”
Ooh.
This was truly a sincere attitude of repentance.
To atone for yesterday’s events, she was willing to become my maid and serve me? Not a bad idea. In that case, I could grant her some convenience.
“You’re a queen, why be a maid? Just act normal.”
“It’s okay. I am definitely a queen… but that’s not important at all in front of you. Isn’t that right? If we think of each other as people, rank doesn’t matter at all.”
Shahrhan was adamant.
“I think I should lower myself even more.”
“Okay. If that’s what you think, Shahrhan, then that’s what we’ll do. Anyway, that’s a good attitude.”
This spanking was having too strong of an effect.
To think she would become this devoted in just one day.
Even though she was suffering from affection deprivation, she seemed to be a good woman at heart.
“Hehe… yes.”
Shahrhan, whose face was completely red, lowered her head and trembled slightly. The crown on her head was very beautiful, but the fact that Shahrhan’s essence was like this was…
I couldn’t understand how such a woman had reigned as queen.
No.
Thinking back to the beginning, she wasn’t that bad of an impression. As much as she had lived a stagnant life for 250 years, it could be seen as an internal problem exploding when an external factor like me intervened.
“While I’m here, I’ll use you as a maid.”
“Yes!”
Shahrhan answered energetically.
“Ah, ah…! To be able to put down this burden like this…!”
Then, she suddenly began to be moved.
“I’m in a position of repentance, but I’m so happy.”
I couldn’t understand her thoughts at all.
How much pressure had she felt as queen to be so happy just to become a maid for a day?
She was a woman who wanted to take off her crown more than anyone else.
“Somehow, my shoulders feel lighter. So at least while you’re staying here, I want to do this. Would that be okay…?”
Shahrhan, who had become much gentler, asked with a hint of anxiety.
I had already allowed it, but she kept asking.
She must be feeling that much anxiety.
“Do as you please. I don’t really care. And I won’t be here for long.”
“Ah… that’s right. You have to leave…”
The tension of Shahrhan, who was about to be happy for a moment, quickly subsided. She seemed to feel a great regret that I was leaving. As she said, she was completely infatuated with me.
It was understandable that she would be sad that I was leaving.
“Um… you.”
“Why.”
“Th-that is…”
Shahrhan, who hesitated and avoided my gaze, opened her mouth with difficulty.
“N-now that I’m a maid… it would be very rude to keep calling you ‘you’…”
“You want to change the way you address me?”
“Yes.”
“Call me whatever you want.”
Just calling me something.
“Th-then!”
Shahrhan, who quickly regained her energy.
She seemed to have bipolar disorder.
“C-can I call you… Your Highness?”
“What?”
“Your Highness… would it be okay to call you that?”
“Excuse me?”
What the hell did I just hear?
“You’re going to call me Your Highness?”
“S-since I’ve also put down my duties and become a maid… I want to make it clear… I don’t want to think of myself as the Queen either. So… while you’re here, I want to serve you as my king.”
This was really nothing but embarrassing things, starting with the spanking and her… arousal yesterday.
“No. No matter what, you’re a real queen, would that really be okay?”
“I’m as good as reborn thanks to you. Although I am the Queen of the Elven Forest… from today, you are my king. So… can I call you Your Highness?”
What is this, really?
I swear, I came as a diplomat, a messenger, and I never thought I would hear these words from the Elf Queen. So, what, am I becoming the king of the elves?
“You really need to retire as queen.”
That was my impression of what Shahrhan had said.
This woman’s mentality is very unstable.
She needs to quit being queen.
“Ah… I, I do too. I wish I could if I could.”
A gloomy voice.
“But no elf would be happy to see me step down from the throne. Not even the World Tree… I had forgotten about freedom a long time ago, but thinking about it again, it’s really distant.”
This is truly terrible.
She lived luxuriously as a queen without any inconveniences, but Shahrhan had no freedom. Because of that, Shahrhan had become a woman who was thirsty for relationships and affection with people. It seemed like there would be no good in messing with her mentality any further.
“Okay. I understand the situation. Call me whatever you want if it makes you feel better.”
“Yes, yes!!!”
Shahrhan, who answered with excessive joy, said shyly.
“Th-then… Your Highness?”
“Why?”
“D-do you have any orders to give?”
“I’m hungry.”
“Ah! Then I have to prepare a meal!”
Soon, Shahrhan, whose face completely changed, grabbed her staff and walked towards the door.
ㅡWhoosh.
She emitted some kind of light with her staff and said softly.
“…Prepare a meal and bring it to the door.”
ㅡFlash.
Soon, the light went out.
“The maids will make it and bring it soon.”
She was ordering them more comfortably than I thought.
“So please wait a little longer.”
“Ah, okay.”
Let’s just wait for the food.
ㅡThud.
I sat on the sofa.
Then Shahrhan approached me.
“Do you have something to say?”
“No… th-that…”
“Speak.”
“Your Highness has a wife…”
Is that what you’re asking?
“Yeah.”
“What kind of person is she?”
She’s very curious.
“They’re all kind. And beautiful.”
They are all wonderful women.
“Yes? A-all of them?”
“Yeah.”
“Could it be that you have multiple…?”
“Yeah. There are eight.”
“Gasp!”
Shahrhan made such a sound as if she was surprised by my answer. Well, it was something that anyone would be surprised by.
“Y-yes, well… it’s only natural that someone like Your Highness would have many wives…”
“I think so too.”
It is inevitable that a superior hero like me will have many women.
“Th-then!”
“Hmm?”
“Please!”
Suddenly, Shahrhan shouted.
“Please, please make me your concubine… wouldn’t that be okay…?”
Concubine?
“Why? You still haven’t given up on me?”
“Should I say I haven’t given up… my heart is still beating like this… Please. Even if it’s only while I’m here, please make me your concubine!”
Shahrhan showed a very desperate attitude and grabbed my hand.
“I don’t have concubines.”
I don’t have anything like concubines.
If they’re my women, they’re all the same, why distinguish them?
“You don’t have concubines?”
“They’re all my women, there are no concubines.”
“Th-that…”
And to make Shahrhan my woman.
“Anyway! I may be like this, but if I try to do something, there’s nothing I can’t do! The elves’ treasures, their assets. I can execute them all… There are really many things in the Queen’s treasury! S-so please…”
An anxious attitude.
“Shahrhan.”
I called her name.
“Ah, I know. It’s an abnormal obsession… but my heart is burning like this right now… I, I can’t stand this! I, I can do anything I can… please!”
“Shahrhan. Let’s get a grip. This kind of obsession isn’t good for you.”
“Ah…”
“It’s not something you can decide impulsively. It’s an issue that you need to think about properly and decide, not just a momentary feeling.”
“B-but…!”
We’ve only known each other for two days.
“There won’t be any more time like this in the future!”
“…”
“Originally, this isn’t something I can do just because I want to… I can only get married after I step down from the throne… But to step down from the throne… an elf who can communicate with the World Tree like me has to appear…”
I heard that’s rare.
“Sniff… sob… I just want to be stubborn. It’s not like we’re officially getting married. Just here… I want to be loved too… I want to be held by a man… I, I want to do what I want to do…”
Shahrhan was speaking sincerely.
“So please… just here, please let me be your woman. Okay? I can give you anything in return, I can.”
“…”
Is she formally proposing to me?
Then I have no choice but to speak properly.
This is… yeah. It’s better to properly reject her and soothe her to make her give up.
Shahrhan is very unstable.
And she’s not in a position to leave the Elven Forest recklessly. Making such a woman my woman would not be good for me or for Shahrhan. Her situation is unfortunate, but I can’t just decide something like this.
Well, of course, I have a duty to follow Claudia’s will and make superior and beautiful women my own and have my children.
But this is not a problem to be decided alone. I think it’s enough for now. Winnie said I could increase the number to ten as I pleased, but I don’t know if the other girls would think so.
I want to refrain from it as much as possible.
I can’t increase the number of women just out of sympathy.
