The long-awaited time had come.

Thinking about having sex in various positions at various places until she arrived at the imperial palace of the Western Empire, she lost track of time.

After washing herself thoroughly until she squeaked clean and changing into a new saint’s robe, she had an audience with the Emperor.

“Thank you for inviting me. I am the Saintess of the Holy Empire, Eluaz de Saint-Claire.”

“Welcome. I have long heard of you.”

What, he’s incredibly handsome?

They said he was the High Priest’s elder brother, and he really was as handsome as the High Priest. No, with the unique aura of a man in power added to middle-aged charm, he was utterly attractive.

Moreover, the Empress beside him was incredibly beautiful as well.

With a face no less lovely than that handsome Emperor’s, and with added dignity, she was magnificent.

Her expectations for the Crown Prince’s looks, inheriting the genes of such a handsome father and beautiful mother, only grew.

“I’ve heard you have not yet debuted in society. Tonight we will hold a ball to celebrate the Saintess’s arrival. I do hope you will attend.”

“Yes, I understand.”

The Empress invited her with a gentle smile.

It was the very banquet that would be the starting signal of the original. Eluaz had no reason to refuse.

Just then, from outside, the chief attendant announced the presence of the Crown Prince.

“His Highness the Crown Prince is waiting.”

“How about my son serving as the Saintess’s escort this evening?”

The Empress was openly trying to pair Eluaz with the Crown Prince.

Upon hearing that the Saintess was coming, the Crown Prince had made a plan to take her as Crown Princess to keep the Second Prince and the imperial consort in check, and the Empress, thinking it a good idea, had told him to come to the audience chamber when greeting the Saintess.

So as not to give the Second Prince any chance to seize her first.

“He will help you more than anyone so that you can enjoy this banquet, Saintess.”

“Thank you for your consideration.”

When Eluaz bent her knees in greeting and straightened, the Empress, satisfied, ordered the attendant to bring in the Crown Prince.

The Emperor clearly saw through the thoughts of the Crown Prince and the Empress, but did not bother to interfere.

Whether it was the Crown Prince or another prince, if the Saintess became a member of the imperial family, the imperial power could be strengthened.

‘Mother-approved sex! Huff, huff!’

In truth, Eluaz had no interest whatsoever in the succession to the throne.

More than ever, her eyes shone as she anticipated sex with the Crown Prince and waited for him to come in.

Her eyes shone so brightly that one could have believed holy power was leaking from them.

“You called for me.”

But the moment she saw the face of the man who entered when the door opened, not only the holy power, even the sparkle in her eyes vanished.

“Wait, why…”

Eluaz could not even form words and just opened and closed her mouth.

She barely restrained herself from pointing a finger at the Crown Prince’s face.

“Hehe. Etienne, escort the Saintess at the banquet to be held tonight.”

“See that nothing is lacking.”

“Yes, Mother. Father.”

The Empress smiled faintly as she watched the Saintess, who could not take her eyes off the Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince too, feeling the Saintess’s gaze, chuckled inwardly.

But that was not what Eluaz was thinking.

Hearing him call the Emperor father and the Empress mother, he was clearly the Crown Prince.

He even had black hair and red eyes, the symbol of a male lead.

The Emperor was black-haired and red-eyed, and that his younger brother, the High Priest, was silver-haired and blue-eyed, she thought, could happen because this was a romance fantasy.

But, but!

‘To think the Crown Prince would be ugly. He’s the male lead, isn’t he? Can a male lead be ugly?’

No, in fact he wasn’t that ugly.

For someone who had inherited the genes of the Emperor and Empress, he was somewhat lacking, but passable enough.

Even so…!

‘With this face, this figure, and I’m the Saintess! Why would I settle when I have those handsome paladins and priests?’

It wasn’t as if she would starve to death immediately if she didn’t marry the Crown Prince.

So did she really have to follow the original and meet the Crown Prince?

Of course, there was another, bigger reason.

‘If only for not wasting the chastity I’ve kept until now, I can’t meet the Crown Prince!’

Eluaz felt terribly wronged.

Even when she had read the original novel, and after possessing the body, when she imagined while looking at the men blooming like flowers around her, it had not been that kind of face.

‘The novel said just seeing the face made you wet! Why with that face? Was it just that you wanted to have sex, Eluaz! You should have realized it when your body was insanely sensitive!’

Eluaz, screaming inwardly, forced herself to pull it together as she watched the Crown Prince and the Empress chat and laugh without her.

If she kept spacing out like this, it seemed they would set the date for her wedding with the Crown Prince.

‘Calm down, Eluaz. The Crown Prince isn’t hideous. He looks like he tore out of a comic book, but it’s just that it wasn’t a romance comic, it was a slice-of-life comic.’

She wasn’t certain she could simply return quietly to the Holy Empire and have sex with the paladins.

Of course, if she focused on seducing just one, it wasn’t impossible, but she doubted he could be as good at sex as the Crown Prince.

Still, the novel had said the Crown Prince was virile, skilled in technique, and his penis long and thick.

Until he reached the “regretful male lead” phase, his bedroom manners were terrible, but Eluase was so starved for sex that she would have gladly taken even that.

‘Right, you know how deep the paladins’ faith is, don’t you? If I blatantly seduce them, they’ll think I’m possessed by a demon. Of course it’s not the kind of demon they think, it’s a lewd demon, but they wouldn’t know that far.’

Ha, I want to have sex…

Eluaz could hold back no longer and let out a small sigh.

She told herself that in any case she would become Empress, the Crown Prince would cherish her more than anyone, and rather than keep chastity, it would be better to enjoy a daily sex life with a virile man.

“Haha, the Saintess seems nervous already.”

“Do not worry too much, Saintess. I will truly look after you like a mother.”

In their minds already, the Crown Prince and Eluaz had held their wedding, had two sons and two daughters, and even succeeded to the throne.

“Y-Yes…”

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Eluaz answered with an awkward smile.

***

While the banquet ripened, the Crown Prince stuck right beside Eluaz.

As if trying to show off that he was already in a deep relationship with the Saintess, he stroked her hair with a greasy smile and said things like ‘my cute little kitten,’ making goosebumps prickle along her arms.

‘What is sex anyway! Of course it’s extremely important, but still!’

She swallowed her curses.

If it was going to be like this, why on earth had she possessed into a 19+ romance fantasy? Either that, or they should have given the paladins and priests ordinary faces.

She resented God for only raising her standards so she couldn’t properly enjoy herself.

“It feels like a dream that the Saintess has come to our Empire.”

“We’ll be seeing each other often from now on.”

“My!”

“Right, Eluaz?”

Since when are we close! Who told you to call me by name the first time we meet!

She wanted to instill Confucian etiquette into a Crown Prince born as the Emperor’s son who knew no fear of the world.

But because of the Saintess buff she could not let harsh words slip out.

“Ha, haha… please excuse me for a moment.”

Taking advantage of the moment the Crown Prince was caught by others, Eluaz fled.

Even so, slipping away from the banquet held for her, the spirit of Confucian propriety blocked her, and all she could do was flee to the terrace.

She considered going to a lounge, but today she had come in a saint’s robe instead of a dress, and with a fresh bare face instead of heavy makeup to highlight the Saintess’s unique aura, so it was not appropriate.

Nor did she wish to go to the rooms where visiting guests were staying.

For Eluaz’s career as a 19+ romance fantasy reader was shouting that those rooms were the place where people who made eye contact at the banquet had sex.

If she rested there and the Crown Prince came, it would be troublesome.

“Killing monsters was easier.”

At last alone, Eluaz caught her breath on the terrace.

She drew the curtain installed at the entrance to signal that someone was there and not to enter.

She had even asked Sir Antoine to stand guard at the door before she came in.

She wanted to rest, so she asked that no one be let in.

Then how is it that…

the Crown Prince came in?