I did not let Lilia go for the rest of the night. Even when she begged me to stop, I continued.
After the first two hours, Lilia could only resign herself to endure my fierce pounding. She moaned and groaned repeatedly while her tired body enjoyed my repeated attacks.
I made sure that she could not forget this night always.
Finally, a bit before dawn and after I cummed inside her for the nth-time, I stopped.
Almost instantly, Lilia closed her eyes and fell asleep.
I smiled. It's done.
Looking at the satisfied smile in Lilia's face, I chuckled coldly. With this, the first part of her fall has started.
I stood up and left the bed. The room we were using had a bathroom, so I calmly took a bath to wipe the smell of sex on my body.
Afterward, I exited the room. Someone was waiting for me outside.
As soon as I left the room, a beautiful woman called out at me.
"… Your highness." Hope looked at me with a complicated expression.
I smiled softly and walked towards her, wrapping my arms around her soft body and kissing her lips gently.
"My cute sister Hope, what are you doing here?"
"I was waiting for you, your highness… Is it done?" Hope asked hesitantly.
"You don't look happy."
Hope smiled wryly. "… I'm sorry… I know that this is something necessary for your plans… It's just that... I don't like knowing that you were sleeping with that woman… Your highness, you will not throw me aside now that you got her, right?"
Sigh, silly girl…
I kissed Hope's forehead and combed her hair softly.
"Silly girl... How can that woman be compared to my cute sister Hope? She is not even ten percent as good as you."
"… Liar." Hope rolled her eyes, but her lips curved up in a smile. "… Your highness, can I ask for something?"
"Mm? What is it?"
"… I have been practicing the technique you taught me recently, and… I finally achieved a breakthrough… I'm in the seventh layer."
I know. I noticed it before.
But if Hope is talking about that, what she wants to ask me is surely…
"... Your highness, I want to have a child."
I knew it.
Hope is Lilia's personal servant, and before Lilia married the emperor, Hope was sterilized and condemned to never have children.
However, the technique I gifted to Hope allows her to reform her body each time she moves up three layers. That means that when she moved from the sixth layer to the seventh layer, her body was reformed anew, and all her injuries from before were healed.
Including her inability to have children.
In other words, Hope is able to have children again. And she wants to have mine.
I smiled amusedly.
"… So my beautiful Hope wants to give birth to my child, huh…"
"Can I not?" Hope asked with a puppy gaze. She looked so cute that I was very tempted to nod in agreement.
However, now is not the time to have children.
I shook my head apologetically. "Sorry, Hope. But now is not the best moment. What do you think will happen if you get pregnant now?"
Hope thought for a moment before sighing in disappointment.
She was a smart woman. She only needed a hint to understand the situation.
Hope was not only Lilia's servant, but she also could be considered as a woman of the emperor. And although the emperor never paid her much attention, he definitively was not going to let her give birth to another man's child.
Plus, once Hope's pregnancy is known, someone is bounded to ask how did she get pregnant.
"… So we can't yet, huh…" Hope's expression was downcast. "Your highness, how long do I have to wait?"
"Soon." I lifted her chin and kissed her soft lips tenderly. "Soon, everything will end."
Hope looked straight to my eyes and nodded. "I understand. I believe in you."
While we were talking, someone approached us. It was a red-haired and slightly tanned woman.
When she saw us, Marana coughed slightly to announce her arrival.
"Boss."
I nodded at her before smiling to Hope.
"Go and sleep for a bit, sister Hope. You have not slept in the entire night."
"Okay…" Hope smiled and kissed my cheek before leaving.
When Hope was gone, Marana raised an eyebrow and looked at the closed door behind me.
"I never thought boss was the kind to fool women to achieve his goal."
I smiled in amusement. "What? Do you dislike it?"
"Hahaha, no, I don't mind. This kind of thing was common where I grew up. Although usually, it was women trying to fool men to do their bidding… By the way, that woman was very loud. Boss must be pretty good at this."
"Oh? Do you want to try? I don't mind doing it to my secretary."
Marana just looked at me and smirked seductively. "I would like, but I don't want to make little Raven cry."
I raised an eyebrow with a smile. This girl has become a lot more open lately, huh.
When we just met, she answered everything tersely and was always in guard against me.
Now, she even dared to tease me.
It looks like I will have to give her a lesson soon.
"Anyway, how are the preparations, Marana?" I decided to think about that later and asked Marana something more important.
"… Everything is going alright. But… Boss, are you sure about this?"
"What? Don't you trust me? With the strength I have shown up to now you should be aware of my capabilities, no?"
Marana nodded a sighed. "I know how powerful you are, boss. But it's just that this plan is… too crazy."
"Just get everything ready. We will follow the plan."
"Okay. I'll be going then." Marana sighed helplessly and nodded with a serious look.
In fact, although Marana thought the plan was crazy, she did not hesitate to follow my orders. She had seen too many incredible things since she became my subordinate that she treated my words as something absolute.
Before leaving, though, she seemed to think about something.
"Right, boss, that woman of before seemed familiar. Who is her? She must be very important if you sacrificed your chastity to get her." Marana asked with a grin.
I grinned back and stared at Marana with a smile in my eyes.
"Do you truly want to know?"
"… I have the feeling I'm going to regret this, but... yes, tell me. Who is she?"
"Well, if you want to know so much… She is the empress."
"!!!"
*Pak!*
"You are crazy! Hey, if the emperor learns about this, we are doomed!" Marana screamed without caring by the papers she let fall to the ground.
"Calm down." I chuckled softly and leaned my back against a wall. "Don't worry, the day the emperor learns about this will be the day of his fall."
"… You are crazy…" Marana was stunned. "Are you truly thinking of staging a coup!?"
"Not me," I said leisurely. "I told it to you before, didn't I? It will be the third princess. We are just her support."
Marana was speechless. For an instant, she did not know how to react.
"What? Are you afraid?" I asked teasingly. "You still have time if you want to chicken out."
Marana fell silent for a moment, but soon, she smiled helplessly and shook her head.
"Damn, how unfortunate of me to work under such a crazy boss."
"But you like it, right?"
"In your dreams." Rolling her eyes, Marana turned around and left with a smile on her face.