Chapter 62 – Returning to the ‘Kingdom of Bouria’

After lunch, they all escorted Sara to her carriage, and Viscount Tom, together with Viscount Finley, joined her on the voyage back to her parents so that they could reassure them she would be well treated and properly trained as a Mage.

As for Princess Ebell, she was hugging King Otto with tears in her eyes. “Promise me you will visit me when possible, father. I will miss you so much!”

“When you are settled, send me a message telling me how everything went, okay? I will attend your marriage, of course, and your mother and sister as well. When you get an opportunity, you can also visit me with your husband. Do your best to strengthen the bonds between our country and Bouria, and pay attention to every meeting you can attend, because that’s an excellent opportunity to learn.”

“I will do my best to not disappoint you, father.”

The Princess then whispered while hugging the King again, “Earl Alex also threatened me he would take my head if I damaged the relationships between the countries in the alliance, and he didn’t seem like he was joking.”

The King whispered back, “Alex has an enormous responsibility, and I think he is expecting that you do your job properly. I am not sure if he would fulfil his threat or not, but it’s better if you don’t put yourself in a situation where he has to take care of you. Even with me in his way, if you do something absurdly bad, the alliance might ask for your death, and he won’t have any other option than to get rid of you.”

Princess Ebell glanced at Alex, who was caressing the snout of his stallion, and she went to her carriage, followed by her lady’s maid. Upon entering, the Princess tested the softness of the pillow on the seats, and her maid said, “These seats are extremely comfortable! With the luggage on top of this carriage and only us inside, we will have a lot of space to stretch our legs!”

The small window at the back of the driver opened, and Ghar looked inside with her face disguised behind her turban. Princess Ebell looked at her and frowned. “Why are you in the driver’s seat? Do you know how to ride this at least?”

Ghar spoke with the deep and sexy voice that Olive chose for her, “I have no idea, but Miss Olive knows, and she is going to teach me during our ride. Alex chose me as your bodyguard. I will be your last line of defence in case we are attacked, so it would be very nice of you if you at least appreciated my effort instead of looking at me with such angry eyes.”

Princess Ebell kept on frowning and crossed her arms over her chest while saying, “I don’t care what Earl Alex says about you, to me, you are still a Monster.”

Ghar made a low growl, and Miss Olive’s voice explained, “You are making Ghar angry, Princess Ebell. She is not a monster; she is a prideful Orc and the older daughter of her clan Leader. You can think of her as a Princess like you because that’s what she is. Or perhaps not like you, because she was supposed to succeed her father in ruling her Clan, like your older sister, while you have to go to another country to get a Kingdom to reign. You should be more humble near Ghar, Princess Ebell, because between you two, she is the better Princess.”

Princess Ebell opened her mouth to answer, but she remembered what happened in the meeting room and what Alex told her. To listen and not be heard, to learn. Ghar tilted her head and Olive’s voice said, “You may be a Princess, but you are a second Princess, with no expectations of inheriting your father’s title and responsibilities. Ghar was going to be the next Leader of her Clan, ruling over hundreds of subjects. You may think their number is low, but in her World, it’s as if she was going to rule over the population of Beliersia and Bouria combined, just for you to better understand the responsibility Ghar would have had if she was not dragged here. Near her, you are inferior in title, charisma, honour, and intelligence. It would be stupid of you to look down on Ghar, Princess Ebell, not only because of all this but also because she will protect you with her life. I don’t care less if you die or if you are raped by twenty Monsters or criminals, but Ghar takes the honour of protecting you very seriously.”

While Princess Ebell was turning bright red in embarrassment, the sexy voice of Olive said, “Miss Olive is mad at you, Princess Ebell. I am having a lot of trouble preventing her from going to you and squeezing your neck. I hope you change that prideful side of yours; it’s annoying.”

Ghar closed the small window, and the lady’s maid said in a low voice, “How dare she talk to you in that way? I may have to do something if she keeps on mistreating you like this, Princess!”

“No… let her be… I need to choose my words carefully. I spoke without even thinking. Earl Alex warned me about my attitude several times, and I was controlling myself until now, but… Miss Olive is right because if Ghar was going to rule her Clan, she is indeed a better Princess than me. I am just a second-class Princess, with no right to succeed my father and I have to go to a faraway country to rule. Not that my father rules anything in Beliersia, because he is more of a representative of Beliersia than a King, but he has many responsibilities, and he is respected by several Kings in the World. I must always remember that I have a task to do, and I am supposed to strengthen the bond between Beliersia and Bouria and help the alliance be united. I can’t fail this task, because everyone prefers peace to war, and disagreements between countries could lead to a dangerous war that would kill many people.”

The maid slowly nodded, noticing the worried look on the Princess’s face. She silently resolved to do everything in her power to assist the Princess in completing her mission.

The small window opened again, and Anika looked inside and pointed to a pillow on an empty seat. “Can any of you give me that pillow? This seat is too hard for me. I need to soften it a little.”

As the lady’s maid was passing the pillow, the Princess asked, “You are going to travel in there? I thought everyone was riding a horse.”

“Yeah, I tried, but my lower half is too sore for that. I need to rest my butt and my womanhood on this soft pillow for today.”

Princess Ebell turned bright red and asked, “Why… are you sore in those places?”

“Because I had a very fun night with Alex, that’s why. Too much fun, actually, because now I need a pillow to seat. He complained that he was a little sore as well, but I am way worse!”

Anika noticed that the maid and the Princess were too ashamed to say anything, and she continued, finding it amusing how they looked. “He knows a few tricks, and I never experienced all of them in just one night. Only one would be enough to make any woman go crazy, and he did a lot to me. I am not complaining because I enjoyed everything, but now I am finding it difficult to seat on hard surfaces or the saddle of my horse. Not a bad price to pay for such a great night! I hope you will be lucky with your new husband, Princess. There’s nothing better than having fun with a man who loves you.”

The Princess gulped, and Anika closed the window with a last smile. The lady’s maid spoke in a low voice, “Such a shameful woman…”

The Princess didn’t say a word, because she suddenly felt nervous by thinking about the Prince who was going to be her husband in a matter of days after she arrived at the ‘Kingdom of Bouria’.

Outside, Alex was riding with Wenammy on his left and Pearl Pearson on his right.

Pearl waved at a group of people that were walking by the edge of the road and said, “Your people sure like you, Alex. They bow like they are supposed to do to their lord, but they make genuine smiles while doing it. Along my travels, I saw a bunch of commoners bowing to Nobles while frowning or mumbling a few insults, but only here did I see commoners that really liked their lord. I hope I get at least half this treatment when I move here!”

“That would be just a matter of respecting them. I give them a good life, and I don’t demand much except work. You intend to move and live in the Castle or my manor?”

“Of course! What, you thought I would let you be all alone with Anika in that big Castle of yours while I patiently waited for your visit to Bouria? No way! Wenammy and I are joining you. We already decided last night while we were walking in the garden after dinner.”

Alex nodded and changed his position on the saddle and fixed the fabric of his trousers on his groins. Pearl noticed what he was doing and asked, “Anika gave you a rash or what? That’s the problem with sleeping with dirty women; they don’t care about themselves, and they pass weird diseases to you.”

“Pearl, that’s a very nasty thing to say! She didn’t pass anything to me. I am just a little sore from all the fun we had! The fabric of my trousers is too tight and uncomfortable.”

Pearl Pearson made a big smile. “I know Anika takes good care of her body. I was just messing with you to see your reaction. You two had too much fun last night, considering that you are sore, and she is riding in the driver’s seat of the carriage with a pillow under her butt because she couldn’t even sit properly during breakfast. I don’t know what you did to her, but I want the same treatment! Or even more, if you can manage! I want to be the one complaining about being sore tomorrow morning!”

Wenammy almost shouted, and she then turned bright red when she realised what she had said, “I also want to be sore tomorrow! Do to me whatever you want! I won’t mind!”

Alex gulped and looked at the empty road ahead. “I don’t know if I will manage you two, but I will definitely try.”

Pearl spoke with a kinky smile. “We could join forces and do a lot of experiments with Wenammy! Or, and this is just a thought, you could be on your back on the floor, Wenammy on top of you, I could be seated on your face, and kissing Wenammy. Or I could be the one on top of you with Wenammy on your face. Maybe something along those lines. There are way too many possibilities with one man and two women, especially with two women that also like to have fun with each other. Oh, and when Anika joins us? Not forgetting Okami and Shinatobe! Such a complete mess of entangled bodies! I am drooling already just by thinking about it! Imagine if we...”

Alex quickly interrupted Pearl’s daydreams while he was fixing the fabric of his trousers. “Can you please stop talking about that? I am having a lot of trouble here! You know I am sore, and I think I lost a bit of skin!”

Pearl looked at Alex’s waist and said, “Damn, you really had a lot of fun! It’s better if you use some Healing Magic. I don’t want any excuses tonight!”

Alex frowned and changed his position on the saddle. “I already used some, but it only helped a little. I don’t want to ask Suijin to help me, but I will use my Healing Magic during the day. It would be completely stupid of me if, because of what I did last night, I wasn’t able to do a thing tonight with you and Wenammy! No way I am going to let that happen!”

Wenammy spoke, and she immediately regretted it. “It’s nice that you want to perform well tonight. But if you are not able, it won’t matter, because I can have fun with Pearl and you can watch, if you want.”

Alex turned to her, completely dumbfounded. “Wenammy… if it were Anika saying that, I wouldn’t be surprised, but hearing you… You are way more perverted than you seem, aren’t you? Or is it Pearl’s fault because she shattered your shell?”

“No… I… I am trying to voice my fantasies and desires… like Pearl and Anika… I don’t want to be left behind. I know I am not so daring like they are, and I am too shy… I am trying to change this side of me, but Pearl told me she likes how I am… that I look cute when I get flustered, red, and stutter…”

Alex gave a slight smile. “I also think you are cute just the way you are. You don’t need to force yourself to change. It’s charming and makes me want to protect you from the big and dangerous World out there.”

Wenammy gave a cute smile that contrasted with the redness on her cheeks. Pearl bit her lower lip and looked at Alex, and she was looked back by a gulping Alex who, like her, was having a lot of trouble not grabbing the shy High Fairy.