## Chapter 21 – Charlotte. Regret # 1
A brown-haired bobbed maid opened her mouth with a sigh.
“Haa… I wonder if they’ll raise our pay?”
The average maid’s salary is 50 silver coins. Aser gives them a bit more, 1 gold coin, but greedy humans are never satisfied.
Their only rest was to stand at the entrance of the forest behind the Demon King’s castle, smoking cheap cigarettes, chatting, and complaining about their bleak reality.
The green-haired maid standing in front of her, with her hair braided down, threw her cigarette on the ground, stomped it out with her boot, and replied.
“Raise it? Don’t you hear the rumors from the guild that they’re increasing the number of maids? Just be grateful you can sit here and get paid. Honestly, District 7 itself is a shithole, but working in the castle isn’t so bad, right?”
Being treated as an emotional garbage can by some ambiguously high-ranking person and being nagged while working was not her style. On the other hand, the Demon King’s castle was one of the dream mansions that maids wanted to come to, because no one really bothered them as long as they followed the set manual.
“Well, that’s true. I’m just grateful I can work here.”
In the moment they were taking a sweet break without doing their assigned tasks, someone rustled in the forest, and they sensed someone’s presence.
The entrance to this path is usually not used by anyone. So it should be a hidden spot for maids to relax in peace, right?
The maids tensed up at the unexpected anomaly.
The one who appeared next was the person they had to avoid the most, Aser, who held the highest position in this castle.
Aser looked at the two maids and asked, puzzled.
“What are you doing here?”
They flinched. They immediately straightened up and bowed slightly to Aser.
“Lord Demon King, have you arrived?”
After finishing the greeting, the maid spoke to Aser in as calm a voice as possible. Their experience had taught them that showing signs of agitation in such situations was a bad idea.
“We were just taking a break.”
She spoke calmly, but her body, facing a great danger, did not. Her heart was beating fast, and cold sweat was soaking her clothes.
The maid, who lowered her head, even held her breath, fearing that Aser would hear her heartbeat.
Fortunately, Aser smiled and overlooked the fact that they were secretly resting outside of their scheduled break time.
“Is that so? I won’t tell Charlotte, so rest a little more and then go back to work.”
After Aser, who seemed to be in a much better mood than usual, completely disappeared, the maids breathed out in relief longer than ever before. They felt as if they had faced a tiger, and their legs were about to give out.
After calming down to some extent, they began to talk again as if nothing had happened.
This time, the topic was about No. 25, who was holding Aser’s hand tightly and walking next to him.
The brown-haired maid smirked with a nasty laugh, thinking of No. 25’s butt.
“Don’t you honestly want to bang her too?”
The braided-hair maid snorted and spat out a curse.
“You crazy bitch… If the Demon King catches you, you’re dead meat.”
She knew that the “dead meat” she was talking about was not just getting fired, but actually getting her head cut off. But aren’t humans animals that willingly take risks to get what they want?
In the end, the bobbed maid couldn’t control her desires and began to devise a dangerous plan in her head.
“Ah, should I seduce her too? Honestly, doesn’t she have the kind of face that would secretly give it up if I begged her on my knees? Or maybe I could find some weakness and call her whenever I’m bored.”
It was an imagination that wouldn’t end well no matter who caught her, Charlotte or Aser.
Once started, the delusion began to grow uncontrollably.
The bobbed maid recalled the sight of Aser and No. 25 that she had just encountered.
Disheveled hair, flushed face, heavy breathing, and a seemingly improved relationship. All the clues pointed to sex.
Imagining No. 25 moaning in Aser’s arms made her vulva tingle so much that her underwear got wet.
“Just now, the Demon King’s face was red, and he was panting when he came, so it seems like they did a lot? She may look like that, but she might be surprisingly packing or freaky. I heard that these days, there are quite a few cases where the man wants to have sex first?”
The maid took out another cigarette from her pocket, put it in her mouth, and said.
They were in the castle together, but seeing her so blinded by lust sometimes made her feel pathetic.
“Really? I don’t know… Give me a light.”
The bobbed maid clicked her tongue at her, who didn’t easily reveal her desires, and took out a match from her pocket and lit it with a *click*!
The braided-hair maid didn’t know until the moment she took a puff of the cigarette.
That desire is easily contagious.
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Aser arrived at the main hall of the castle and gave No. 25 a light, affectionate kiss on the forehead.
“It must have been hard for you to put up with me today, right? Rest in your room. I’ll come get you when it’s time for dinner.”
“Yes. I understand.”
Seeing the slender figure of No. 25 bowing and going up to her room on the second floor made his lust rise again, but he barely managed to hold it back. In order to be a good lover and master to her, controlling his lust was not an option but a necessity.
He didn’t want to ruin this relationship that he had built up over three days with a moment’s mistake.
He had made quite a bit of progress today, so if he could somehow maintain this state, he would soon be able to spend a hot night with No. 25. With that thought, Aser couldn’t properly manage his expression.
He wanted to laze around on the bed or sofa and keep this ecstasy to himself, but he remembered that he had left the work to Charlotte, so he didn’t delay and went straight to his office.
When he opened the red door, the smell of the old bookshelf that filled one side of the office wall greeted Aser first.
Charlotte was sitting at the large desk that was visible as soon as he opened the door.
Charlotte was silently processing the piles of documents on the desk. Even though they were called documents, there was nothing special in them. Most of the documents that came to Aser were about the improvement of District 7 and the punishment of criminals.
Aser waved his hand at Charlotte with a bright voice and greeted her.
“Charlotte, I’m here.”
Charlotte, buried in a mountain of documents, raised her head at Aser’s voice.
Maintaining a blank expression was not easy. Seeing Aser’s twitching lips and subtly smiling eyes, Charlotte thought, “Ah, things went well.”
Charlotte stopped the movement of the fountain pen she was scribbling on the document, got up from her seat, and asked as if confirming something she already knew.
“Did something good happen?”
Aser didn’t answer easily, but just sat on the edge of the desk and grinned. When he recalled the sweet moments he had with No. 25 in the valley, he couldn’t hide the smile on his face.
It seemed certain that something good had happened, and Charlotte, who was anxious to know what it was, kept asking Aser questions.
“Don’t hide it like that, just tell me. What did you do with No. 25?”
Aser only laughed at Charlotte’s pleas and didn’t tell her the important details until the end. Instead, he thanked Charlotte.
“I survived thanks to you. It really worked out well when we talked naked, you know?”
‘Talked naked?’
Charlotte pursed her lips and pondered. Aser didn’t know what Charlotte was thinking and began to boast in a very excited voice.
“What happened was that No. 25 said that she liked me the most…!”
Seeing Aser’s face overflowing with smiles like a child, Charlotte congratulated Aser with an indifferent expression, but her heart began to burn black with anxiety.
A happy face, talking naked, No. 25 saying that she liked him the most. There was only one thought that came to her mind.
‘Did they do it?’
She was hoping that the two of them had sex. If the two of them had a relationship, it would be good news for Charlotte.
Since Aser had taken the first time, it was no different from saying that she could eat No. 25 to her heart’s content without feeling any guilt.
Aser sat in the seat where Charlotte had been sitting and smiled, revealing his teeth. That smile was the brightest of all the smiles Aser had ever shown.
Aser looked at the documents on the desk and said to Charlotte.
“I’ll take care of the rest now. Thank you for today.”
Charlotte bowed her head and left Aser in the office, then went straight down to the second floor and headed to No. 25’s old room at the end of the hallway.
If Aser didn’t tell her, she could just ask No. 25 directly.
Charlotte didn’t knock and roughly opened No. 25’s door.
