AWDC Chapter 28
by VolareThe King narrowed his eyes at the flower he had just acquired, sipping his sake.
He pushed forward his empty cup, and with shaky hands, poured himself another.
His hands were frail, small, and delicate.
“Riyuki, can you drink sake?”
“No, I am very weak to it.”
The King was increasingly pleased by her gesture of tilting her neck, which looked as if it would break if touched.
“Is that so? Then I shall teach you how to drink sake.”
So saying, he pulled Riyuki closer, and pressed the cup he was holding to her lips.
“Now, open your mouth.”
As her small mouth opened, the King poured sake into it.
“Mmph, uh,” the woman instinctively choked, and sake dripped from her mouth.
Reflecting in the lamplight, the liquid dripping from her red lips flowed from her cheeks down her neck.
In the dimly lit room, the young girl’s white face contorted with the bitterness of the sake, her eyes gleaming with what seemed like resentment, further arousing his lust.
As if he had seen an unexpected change in the woman, the King was seized by a playful impulse.
“I gave you sake to drink, and yet you spill it. That’s bad manners.”
“Very well, this time I will personally feed it to you. Don’t spill it this time.”
He pulled the woman’s face closer and forcefully opened her lips with his, pouring the sake from his mouth into hers.
The woman desperately tried to drink the sake, but her throat rejected the bitter taste.
The sake spilled from the woman’s mouth, flowing down her neck and onto her chest.
“I went to the trouble of giving you sake, and yet you spill so much. What am I to do with you?”
While his words were scolding, the King’s eyes gleamed.
He tore open the woman’s chest, and her white skin leaped into view.
“Ah,” the woman let out a frightened sound, further fueling the King’s sadistic desires.
It did not take long for the woman to be pushed down, her beautifully shaped breasts exposed.
“Ah, there are people watching here, there’s a light.”
The woman let out a shy cry. The maids who had been there earlier had already sensed what was happening and left the room.
No, the current King would not care if anyone saw his lewd behavior.
After a while, the King finally released the woman he had been intimate with. He was deeply satisfied with what he had done.
The naked girl was still limp.
(This woman was terrified just by being held, and seemed to be in a lot of pain.)
He never expected that this woman was still a virgin.
For the King, whether she was a virgin or had children was not particularly important. The important thing for a concubine was whether she could produce an heir.
However, he already had 18 sons, so producing an heir was no longer so important.
The King’s current concern was whether he was satisfied with the concubine’s body.
If anything, virgins were troublesome because they had no sexual experience and only felt pain, which could be off-putting.
But this woman tried desperately to accept him. Even though it was her first time, when they came together, their skin seemed to cling to each other.
(So, Tzukira wants to say that he offered me a woman who had never been touched.)
(I thought he was just a stupid son, but maybe he’s a little clever.)
When the act was over, the woman finally regained her senses and sat up.
The King watched with satisfaction as she shyly gathered her disheveled clothes and put them on.
Mischief arose in him again, and he pulled her closer, and she leaned against him, playing the part.
She didn’t seem like an inexperienced woman at all, and had the air of a mature woman.
(Interesting, I’ll cherish this woman for a while.)
(I wonder what I should make that guy do.)
The King was pleased with himself.
Ten days later, Prince Tzukira was summoned by the King.
This time, he was not taken to the audience chamber, but to a room used for private matters.
Even so, the Prince knelt on the floor, showing the greatest respect as a vassal.
“I am pleased with your thoughtful gesture of offering Riyuki to me.”
(What’s so “pleasing” about it? You stole my wife, you lecherous old man.)
In an ordinary family, they would have been insulting each other, even between parent and child, but as expected, people of noble status are good at hiding their true feelings.
“Therefore, I grant you a position in the Central Secretariat.”
“I am grateful for this honor,” the Prince said, while wondering. If he was to be given a position, he should have been taken to the audience chamber. There must be a reason for this.
Thinking so, he lowered his head further.
“Also, you will be living alone for a while. That must be inconvenient in many ways.
I will give you Salié. Cherish her forever.”
Salié was a concubine whom the King had kept by his side for eight years. She was a favorite of his. She was ten years older than the Prince, and had two children with the King, both girls.
(Why is he forcing a woman with baggage on me?) That was the Prince’s feeling.
Of course, he could not make such a clicking sound.
“Yes, I will cherish Salié for the rest of my life.”
This offer was not a bad one for Salié either. Unfortunately, Salié could not produce a son, so there was no way for her to rise any higher.
If she had given birth to a son, she would eventually receive a territory suitable for a Prince, and live comfortably as his mother. However, as a concubine, she would not be guaranteed a territory, and at best she would be married off to a noble of the rank of Earl, and as his mother, she would be forced to live alone. She might even be forced to live with barely any servants.
Becoming a concubine of Prince Tzukira, even though he was the eighth son, was not a bad thing. The Prince had no legal wife. If Salié showed her talent and supported him, the Prince might rise in the world, and Salié might even be able to obtain the position of legal wife.