Aijira arrived at her room that the servants had prepared for her. It was her own private room. The room was large, a little bit smaller than the Throne Hall but larger than most rooms.
Aijira looked around, sensing countless knights hidden in the shadows staring at her, observing her every move. She just smiled at them and waved her hands to the side, the knights flinched before they understood what Aijira meant and soon, they left.
She sat down on the bed and started removing her corset with a sigh.
"That tyrant... What was he planning, appearing like that. Thanks to him, i couldn't probe the overall situation in the capital in a deeper level..." Clicking her tongue, Aijira fully removed her corset.
Upon the removal of her corset, Aijira's heavy mounds broke free from their restraint. Letting the dress slip past her body, Aijira walked towards the bathroom inside the room and opened the door.
Finding Therese there readying the bath, Aijira smiled at her and touched the water.
It was warm.
"Thank you Therese."
"It is my pleasure, my lady." The old maid nodded her head and stood up from the bathtub, she grabbed a brush and some shampoo and helped Aijira sit inside the bathtub.
Aijira felt the warm water fizzle her cold nerves, letting out a sigh of relief. Her body somewhat tones for a warrioress like her. Her entire body riddled with scars from past battles.
Her mounds floated on the surface of the warm water as Therese gently started combing her hair, cleaning her up.
"How goes the meeting, milady?" Therese initiated a conversation.
Aijira pursed her lips and shook her hand.
"It was a disaster."
"Oh? Why? What happened?"
Aijira clicked her tongue, leaning further into the edges of the bathtub.
"The Emperor came to the meeting."
She then turned to look at Therese while shampoo bubbles littered her red hair. Therese stopped scrubbing as she stared at her lady's beautiful face.
"Thanks to him, i couldn't steer the conversation to the laws of the empire and build a foundation for my influence."
Therese narrowed her eyes, "Then is the Emperor trying to impede your growing influence in the capital?"
Aijira softly nodded her head, "Most likely the case."
She then leaned back to the edges of the bathtub and spoke, "But it doesn't matter. He can only delay the inevitable, no matter what he does, unless he kills me and my entire faction, he can't stop me from changing this empire into something good."
Therese nodded her head and gently poured water on the shampoo filled hair of Aijira, who was enjoying the touch.
"Though, milady. We could have just entered the capital without marrying the emperor, y'know?"
Aijira softly shook her head, "Yes, but then many of my plans will not work. There is also the case of the Nobles Faction in the capital would push me back in fear of losing whatever little influence they have in this place. That would just make my work even harder."
"Ah, of course...." Therese pouted her mouth.
Therese has been her maid, even her nanny since she was a baby. Her mother, upon giving birth to her, was soon put into a catastrophic amounts of work alongside her husband, Aijira's father and the former Duke.
She trusted Therese more than her mother, who was, by now, on a trip with her husband to who knows where. Though it might be a blessing that after giving birth to 2 sons and a daughter after her, the former duchess was unable to conceive anymore.
Remembering how weird and spoiled her youngest sister was, Aijira could only pray to the Goddess that she would behave back home.
Genevo and Airin had enough training to discipline their little sister from me so they could probably control her tendencies and tantrums... Probably.
Aijira just hoped that the Duchy wouldn't call her to help control that tantrum filled child back home. Moreso that she made her brother, the one born after her, her heir.
Genevo should be training how to become duke from the head butler, right? I hope it went well...
Aijira let out a sigh of worry as Therese finished washing her mistress. Aijira stood up from the bathtub, fully washed clean as she started walking away. Grabbing a towel from somewhere, Aijira gently wiped her pristine skinned body silently as Therese prepared her sleeping gown.
Aijira wore the gown and gently lied on the bed as Therese exited the room silently. She closed the door behind her and left Aijira alone in the room.
Aijira looked at the unfamiliar ceiling for a moment, then turned to the terrace where the moon was shining before shaking her head.
Problems have arrived. Problems that future me will solve sooner or later... Aijira thought to herself as she closed her eyes.
Soon, her breathing stabilized and she soon went to dream land.
Unaware of a gaze looking at her from the shadows. a red crimson regal gaze.