“……It was all just an excuse.”
Elise leaned her upper body over my chest. Her soft breasts pressed down against my chest.
“Whenever Sergeant Hanna fed you stew, Lieutenant Colonel... Whenever Major Seraphina looked at you with worried eyes... my heart, selfishly, could not be at ease.”
Her arms wrapped tightly around my neck.
“Because I’m a medical officer... I could only stay by your side under the pretext of treating your injuries. But that was so unfair. Once the sickroom door closed, you would return to the side of other women.”
Elise’s breath tickled my ear.
“So I kicked it away. A safe position within the system means nothing. For wherever you are not, even the emperor's side would be no different from hell.”
A candid confession.
I felt the strength in her arms around my neck. I chuckled softly, wrapping both hands around Elise’s slender waist.
“Ah!”
Then, with a slight exertion, I flipped our bodies over.
Flop.
Elise’s back landed on the mattress of the wide king-size bed. From a cowgirl position to missionary—the posture reversed in an instant.
Blonde hair spread over the pure white bed sheet. Her naked body, flushed red beyond black lingerie, ruthlessly stimulated my desire to conquer.
I put my weight on the arms braced against the bed, completely trapping her in my embrace.
“Elise.”
“Haa, haa... Lieutenant Colonel, Max...”
Elise looked up at me with moist, glistening eyes.
“I’ll confess everything, honestly. From the very beginning, back at the Rosenheim estate, that wasn’t a medical act. It was simply... my shallow greed that used the mana congestion as an excuse to hold you.”
“……”
“I wanted to offer my first time, this chaste body as a daughter of the Count Kleist family... wholly to you, the hero of the Empire.”
“...It was the same for me.”
Unable to hold back any longer, we slowly brought our faces together.
Smack... chuuup...
Our lips overlapped, and heated breath intertwined.
An infinitely clumsy and cautious trembling of the tongue.
Yet a thrilling pleasure jolted through my brain.
‘Sexual experience confirmed.’
[Sexual Experience]
Kiss: 1 time (Max Jaeger)
It was the first kiss of her life.
“Haa, mmph... mm, hmm...!”
Smack, smooch...!
I gently enveloped Elise’s clumsily entwining tongue and sucked it toward me. I twisted my lips slightly to adjust the angle, thoroughly sweeping her even teeth and tender palate as I invaded deeper.
“Puh-haa... haa, haa...”
The long kiss ended, and at last our lips parted. For a moment, a clear string of saliva stretched long.
“Haa, haah... Max...”
Panting heavily, Elise lifted both legs to wrap around my waist. Our lower halves pressed tightly together naturally, my cock flush against her inner walls without a gap.
“I can’t hold back anymore... Even if it hurts, it’s fine...”
As if that wasn’t enough, Elise raised both arms and wrapped them around my neck. Now our entire bodies were completely stuck together. Like a sloth clinging to a tree.
“Inside me, please ram that big, hot thing deep inside me... Max♡”
Snap.
In that instant, something inside my head seemed to break.
“You brought this on yourself, Elise.”
I firmly grasped her pale white thighs, which were binding my waist. And then I thrust my hips upward like a beast.
Pwaaang—!!
“Aaaang♡!”
Her voluptuous breasts, wrapped in silk lingerie, jolted violently.
Squelch! Squelch! Squelch! Slap!
My cock began mercilessly pounding her tight, hot inner walls, unique to a virgin. The explicit sound of flesh slapping against flesh.
“Hahng! Ahht! Ma-Max! Lieutenant Colonel Max! It’s too, too deep... huaaaht♡!”
The pain had long since vanished, erased by [Harmonious Touch]. Overwhelming by a pleasure she had never experienced, Elise’s eyes rolled upward.
Squelch! Crunch! Plunge—!
‘Status analysis.’
[Name: Elise von Kleist]
[Emotion: Good. So good... I feel like I’m going crazy...]
I roughly grabbed her breasts, which asserted their presence above the black silk lingerie.
“Aahht! Hht, ahng♡!”
When I flicked her erect nipple with my finger, Elise reacted sensitively, bucking her pelvis.
“Are you enjoying it, Major?”
“Yes...! Yesss...! I-I love it...♡!”
The usually so intellectual and elegant Elise was answering like a bitch in heat, her usual demeanor nowhere to be found. I took in that rare sight while giving my final spurt.
‘Pregnancy Control.’
[Skill ‘Pregnancy Control’ activated.]
[Setting pregnancy probability to 0%.]
“Haa...! I’m cumming, Elise.”
“Yes, yess♡ Hht, pour it all inside me♡!”
Shudder—!
“Aaaaang♡!”
Semen poured out like a waterfall. Elise clung to my back and trembled all over.
Gush, gush.
Her vaginal walls convulsed as if squeezing my cock.
Our breaths mingled, and for a moment, a thick scent of night flowers filled the hospital room.
Ding—
[You have captured the heart of ‘Elise von Kleist’ and formed a deep bond through your first sexual intercourse.]
[You have earned a large amount of experience points as a reward!]
Probably having designated the VIP room as a safe location, it settled the experience points.
I didn’t level up. It seemed the required experience had increased because my level was definitely higher now.
But there was nothing to regret. Because I had made Elise my woman.
“Haa, haah...”
She was gasping for breath, her face buried in my chest.
I reached out and stroked her smooth back and waist.
‘Status analysis.’
[Name: Elise von Kleist]
[Status: Fatigue, languidness, extreme happiness.]
Extreme happiness, huh.
Soon she raised her head and our eyes met. Her brown eyes, slightly dazed from the afterglow, curved prettily.
*
The next afternoon, Imperial Army General Headquarters.
Summoned by Field Marshal Ludwig, I visited his personal office.
“Come in, Lieutenant Colonel Jaeger.”
A grave and imposing voice, as always.
Cigar smoke hung heavy inside the spacious office. Beyond the desk, Field Marshal Ludwig stared at me.
‘Status analysis.’
[Name: Ludwig von Stahlberg]
[Status: Satisfaction, strategic calculation]
[Emotion: The little rat has finally stepped onto the diplomatic stage. I like it.]
“Commander of the Jaeger Battle Group, Lieutenant Colonel Max Jaeger. I have come at your summons.”
“At ease.”
He blew out a long plume of cigar smoke and tossed a document bundle onto the desk.
[Appointment Letter for Special Duty Military Attaché and Plenipotentiary Envoy]
“This is the official letter of appointment, bearing His Majesty the Emperor’s seal after passing through parliament last night. Tomorrow morning, you will enter Londinium together with Foreign Minister Joseph as a member of a special diplomatic mission.”
“You mean as plenipotentiary envoy.”
“Yes. The ‘Santa Barbara Colony Joint Administrative Body.’ His Majesty the Emperor judged that you are the only one suitable to decisively conclude this treaty.”
The corner of the field marshal’s mouth turned up slightly.
“Of course, the old fogeys in parliament vehemently opposed a military officer like you sitting at the diplomatic negotiation table. But I overruled them. Would it do for a man who moves under the name of Stahlberg to be pushed around by desk scholars and reduced to mere decoration?”
“I am deeply grateful for your grace, Field Marshal.”
“You can repay me with results.”
He stubbed out his burning cigar in the ashtray and leaned forward over the desk. That simple gesture alone intensified the pressure bearing down on me severalfold.
‘I can never get used to that pressure.’
After I waited a moment, Ludwig began speaking.
“Right now, the United Kingdom’s condition is the epitome of chaos.”
“Chaos... you say?”
“Yes. Do you still believe the United Kingdom is robust enough to be called ‘the empire on which the sun never sets’? Don’t be absurd. Those bastards may be shiny on the outside, but inside they’re a completely rotten, festering wreck.”
I nodded quietly.
The motif for the Victoria United Kingdom in the game was real-world Britain.
However, that didn’t mean the two nations were exactly identical.
If anything... the Victoria United Kingdom’s situation was much worse.
“Excessive taxes, inflation, and starving workers overflowing in the slums. Exploiting that gap, radical factions shouting ‘anti-colonialism’ and ‘worker liberation’ are swallowing up the parliament.”
The field marshal’s eyes narrowed.
“The problem is the ‘Commonwealth’ side. Intelligence has come in that those red bastards are behind the radical factions within the United Kingdom.”
‘The Commonwealth.’
Along with the Republic and the United Kingdom, another major power in this world setting. The so-called Iron Curtain, which occupies the vast territory in the continent’s east under a red flag, advocating extreme equality and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
“The situation is far more complicatedly entangled than I thought.”
“Indeed. It’s a precarious tightrope act that could collapse with a single nudge. Nothing is certain, and it’s extremely dangerous.”
Field Marshal Ludwig tapped his thick fingers on the table.
“Your mission is diplomatic negotiation. In exchange for the Empire conceding Santa Barbara, you are to secure as many concessions as possible from the United Kingdom. Whether that be economic rights or diplomatic concessions, whatever.”
“I will do my best. However, that doesn’t seem to be all. Your Excellency.”
Hearing my words, Ludwig’s lips curled up.
“What an astute little rat you are. Yes, there is a second mission.”
He said,
“Uncertainty is a danger, but it is also an opportunity.”
I had an intuition about what he would say next.
“I’m telling you to utilize the United Kingdom’s utterly unpredictable situation to the maximum. All possibilities are open. Their military might quell the protestors with bloody suppression... or...”
At his words, I swallowed dryly for a moment.
‘...What a shitshow.’
The fact that this was no exaggeration was genuinely serious.
“...The separatist bastards might trigger a revolution and plunge it into civil war. Either way, it’s an opportunity for the Empire. Do you understand?”
“I will bear it in mind.”