[R18] King's Domination

I was the protagonist, and I was drawn as a hopeless man who did not feel a shred of a woman’s heart. I went down from the roof without feeling Agnes’s hot, burning wish at all.

On the way down from the roof I stepped onto a veranda, and the count’s daughter, my lover, took my hand. Wait. When someone grabbed my leg that time, was it a young lady of a side line of the count’s house? Thanks to that it became a serious matter.

In the play, I lock eyes with the young lady I met by chance and soak in a syrupy mood. I want to shout, where did the people who were watching with us go!? They talk of love that far.

Then we go down to the garden, and the final boss on the count’s side appears, Division Head Hütter. This actor has a villain’s face so strong it is almost an apology... Division Head Hütter’s real look threw off an odd-person air, but without that I think he looked perfectly ordinary. The moment this man appeared, before he had done a single thing, booing started. Pitiful! This actor too, I think, is a good husband and a good father when he goes home. I have heard that actors who play villains are often good people, so this one surely is too. You must not judge a person by the eye you look with.

The me on stage takes a magic attack from Division Head Hütter and is barely breathing. For some reason Rudolf and Lily are not there.

I fall, barely breathing, and somehow the young lady of House Kirchhoff appears and gives me words of encouragement. Then cash-register me revives. But Division Head Hütter attacks that me without mercy. I stand again on the young lady’s encouragement. From the audience, cheers for me and abuse for Division Head Hütter.

"The same as the real thing."

Her Majesty murmured. Was that about me? Is that how I am seen? Do I revive and fight on one word of a woman’s encouragement? I cannot accept it.

Even so I at last defeat Division Head Hütter. I bathe in cheers. Out of the dark, the young lady appears and throws her arms around the me in the spotlight. Lady Hannah, even if you are lovers, is embracing a man in front of the public not a problem?

Then Count Keyhoff appears with a full smile, praises my work, and recognizes our courtship. A strange ending. The audience poured abuse on some duke, and poured praise on this count’s action. Is the playwright really Linoa? Is the Count written too well? I think, but he is the lover’s father, and if he were a villain they could not come together, right? So it cannot be helped?

At the end all the characters line up on the stage and greet. Beside the me on stage stand Lady Hannah and Agnes, facing the audience and waving with pleasant faces.

"That was good!"

Her Majesty said, and,

"It was fun!! Your Majesty, thank you!"

"Your Majesty, thank you for bringing us!"

"I will not forget this debt for life!"

Anouk and the others offered thanks one after another.

"Did Lord Robbie enjoy it?"

Her Majesty asked. Here I should give the true feeling.

"Well. To be honest, it is a little mixed. As someone who was at the center of that clash, I thought the facts were bent quite a bit. If you say this is theater, that is true."

"Ufu. A person who was there would be like that. Now, now. Linoa and the others will come to greet us soon."

Not long after Her Majesty said that, Linoa and the others came. Of course Robbie Merry and Hannah, and Agnes as well.

While Linoa and the others were greeting Her Majesty, Agnes was looking at me with glittering eyes.

The moment the greetings ended, Agnes ran to me.

"Lord Robin! You watched, did you not! My feeling got through, did it not! The hot feeling I could not convey then, I shouted from the stage toward Lord Robin! How about it? Will you come with me to the chieftain of the Eisleben clan!"

She shouted from a distance that was almost a kiss. Spit landed full on me. I want something done about this hot, heavy feeling.

"No, no, no. That is a little impossible. Even if you throw your own feeling at me one-sided like that, I have my feeling as well..."

Even if I did not, I would have to say so or it would not settle.

"Strange! Then why did you name me as your bow teacher!"

Persistent!

"Well. That was because I wished for Lady Eisleben, who stands at a height as a warrior. Feeling such as like or love was not mixed in!"

"What! At this point you say such a thing? After I pressed close and taught you the bow that time!"

Agnes stressed something that sounded bad to other ears... We had pressed close, but nothing had touched, and I had not reacted either.

"Even if you say so, I do not know Lady Eisleben’s person, and Lady Eisleben knows nothing of me, yes?"

"That is not so! That sword work, the movement of the body, the shooting look in the eyes. See that and you know the person’s nature! I know all of Lord Robin!"

Agnes stated it, but she would not be thinking that there are many ladies who have a bodily relation with me, would she? In fact Her Majesty and Anouk were wearing smiles that said what is this person talking about.

Unable to watch the barren talk between me and Agnes, Her Majesty said,

"Eisleben, stop there. Lord Marie is troubled. And today Lord Marie is watching the play with me as my guest. Whatever Eisleben feels, pressing it here is rude. Linoa, have Eisleben withdraw."

She said it sharp, and Linoa said,

"Agnes, it is as Her Majesty says. Withdraw already. Lord Marie has a troubled face. You can build a relation with Lord Marie from here. There is nothing good in rushing a man and a woman."

She said it from above. Agnes withdrew, unwilling. To be honest, I already wanted to stop having Agnes teach me the bow.