To become a king and a magician

Of course, from a realistic point of view, this is impossible. Putting aside everything else, just considering Sajou Rei, Sajou Aika simply cannot get past her. Sajou Rei has 70% control over the doll body they share.

So Aika Sajou could only suppress her resentment and focus all her attention on her tender moments with Torata Natsukawa, striving to leave no regrets each time she came out.

【Don't even think about doing anything reckless, Aigo. If you cross the line, I'll take back my body anytime.】

Knowing what her other self was planning, Sajou Rei reminded herself in her mind.

(Of course I know, I don't need you to remind me.)

After casually dealing with her other self, Sajou Aika got up and shifted her position, intending to sit directly on Natsukawa Torama's lap. But as soon as she stood up, Natsukawa Torama pressed her back down.

"Not now, Aige. There are too many people. We'll talk about it after everyone leaves and goes back to their rooms."

"Um... really not okay?"

"Really, I'll keep you company after we go back to your room. Besides, you're my maid now, so you can't be too presumptuous."

As he spoke, Natsukawa Torama patted her maid outfit—an outfit that Sajou Rei had conjured up before they came, saying it would serve as a form of disguise and also satisfy Natsukawa Torama's personal quirks.

Actually, he quite likes the uniform-playing style, and with Sajou Aika's abilities, she can play any role, such as maid, nurse, teacher, boss... and the corresponding clothes can perfectly reflect the kind that Natsukawa Torama likes.

In this sense, Natsukawa Torato's affection for Sajō Aika is the highest, not to mention his dual personality—he's got all the bonuses!

Upon hearing Natsukawa Torato say that she could do as she pleased after returning to her room, Sajou Aika could only suppress her inner thoughts for the time being and obediently pretend to be a pretty maid.

And just then, a thin man appeared at the door of the carriage. He was wearing what appeared to be the uniform of the Demon Eye Collection Train. His face and eyes seemed devoid of any emotion, and he was the kind of person who would make you feel cold just by standing next to him.

Standing next to him was a woman wearing a fur coat, with short, boyish blond hair and a model-like figure. She also had leather belts wrapped around her eyes, giving her a somewhat unusual appearance.

This somewhat odd pair of people standing together appeared on the train.

"I am Rodin, the conductor of this carriage. Please forgive me for disturbing you all during your pleasant conversation."

The uniformed man said this.

"This vehicle will travel around the Land of Mist for four days and three nights before returning to London. During this time, please take your time to admire the displayed Mystic Eyes and await the auction on the third day. The Mystic Eyes won at the auction can be transplanted immediately, or you can keep them yourself. In addition, the transplantation will not take too long, so please rest assured. Those who wish to sell their Mystic Eyes should come to our work area before the start of the auction on the third day and may also explain their requirements to me."

"This is the auctioneer, Leondra."

If you are a regular customer of the Magic Eye Collection Train, you should be very familiar with this process and these two people. Since the train was built, these two have been employees of the Magic Eye Collection Train and have never been replaced.

"Next, I will show you the location of the guest rooms. Please come this way."

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The guest rooms on the Magic Eye Collection Train can be described as luxurious.

After all, it's so luxurious that there are only two or three guest rooms in each carriage. Despite the limited width of the train, the simple furniture arrangement prevents it from feeling cramped.

In principle, each person holding an invitation is entitled to a guest room, and each invitee may bring a maximum of two attendants.

Therefore, Natsukawa Torato and Sajou Aika naturally ended up living in the same room.

"My lord prince~~~~~"

As soon as they entered the room, Sajou Aika grabbed Natsukawa Tora and pulled him onto the bed, completely disregarding her current status as a maid, and firmly pinned her master down beneath her.

"Aige, wait a minute, I have something else to say—"

"Let's wait a bit. You've been leaving us at home while you and Grey have been out for two weeks... Don't underestimate the impulse I've been building up over these past two weeks, Your Highness~~~"

It felt like she had been enduring for a very long time—correction, actually she had been enduring for a very long time. Not to mention the two weeks that Natsukawa Tora was away, just these two or three minutes just now had been a very, very long time for Sajou Aika.

She wants to be with her prince, wants him to never leave her, wants to be covered in his scent, wants him to be covered in her scent, wants them to bear each other's marks...

These are the things that Ayaka Sajou is thinking about right now.

The same goes for Sajou Rei.

(Sorry, my other self, I still don't want someone to take first place from me in a situation like this.)

After silently apologizing, Sajou Rei regained control of her body: "Master, my magic power has been somewhat depleted during the two weeks you were away. Please make sure to make up for the lost two weeks' worth tonight~~~"

First it was Aika Sajou, then it was Rei Sajou.

Xia Chuanhu felt that he wouldn't need to sleep tonight, but then again, he didn't plan to sleep tonight anyway.

He suddenly flipped her over, pinning Sajou Rei beneath him, and placed his hand unceremoniously on a certain sensitive area. Natsukawa Torama lowered his head and whispered in her ear, "You said it yourself, a maid must do what a maid is supposed to do."

"Yes, of course. Please don't be too lenient, Master."

24. Humans cannot beat perpetual motion machines.

Natsukawa Tora's magic power can be considered limitless in a sense. As a spirit born from the planet, even if he is an acquired spirit and not 100% purebred, he is still a spirit. He directly shares magic power with the entire natural world and can absorb magic power from the outside world endlessly.

Given his abilities, it's generally impossible for him to fall into a state of magical depletion.

But now, he's unusually facing a shortage of magic power—no, that's not quite right, elves don't have a concept of insufficient magic power, because that would mean the planet would be destroyed. A more accurate description of Natsukawa Torata's situation is that his human side engaged in activities beyond its limits last night.

Living things get tired. Humans and elves alike will inevitably feel weary after prolonged activity. If they were true elves, they could simply replace the part of themselves that feels tired. Although they wouldn't usually do that, it's actually quite possible in practice.

But Natsukawa Tora is not one of them.

He is still about 30% human, and this 30% limits his activity level. Once that limit is exceeded, he will fall into a state of extreme fatigue, and it will take some time to recover.

That's pretty much his current state.

It was already noon when he woke up in the smelly room. After using his imagination to revert the room to the state it was in before he and Sajou Rei entered, Natsukawa Tora went to the restaurant with her.

Just as the two entered the restaurant—

"Oh, good afternoon, Mr. Natsukawa... Um, are you alright?"

Inside the restaurant, Olga Marie, who was having her meal at a table by the window, was taken aback when she saw Natsukawa Tiger walk in.

If I had to give a reason, it would be that Natsukawa Tora looks far too颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a state of being listless, dispirited, or decadent) right now.

If yesterday's Xia Chuanhu was a freshly picked lemon, today he looks more like a shriveled lemon that has been squeezed clean until not a drop is left.

His face and eyes practically screamed "exhaustion."

On the contrary, the maid named Sajou Rei, who was following behind Natsukawa Torata, looked very energetic, even more so than last night. She was like a plant that had been watered, radiating a vigorous vitality. Moreover, judging from the smile on her face, it was clear that she was in a very good mood.

(What exactly happened between these two last night after they were assigned to their respective rooms?)

Olga Marie felt some doubt, but she soon recalled some rumors about Natsukawa Tora—that even though he already had a fiancée who was a monarch, he still had affairs with many women outside and had bad relationships with them.

Could it be...

(They made a move on this maid... no, it feels like... the roles are reversed?)

If Xia Chuanhu had taken the initiative, he should be the one with a shiny face now, but the opposite is true. However, regardless of the situation, there is absolutely no doubt that something happened between the master and servant last night!

In the world of magicians, it is not uncommon for masters to take advantage of their maids. After all, servants, like children, are considered property by magicians, who can do whatever they want to them. There are many newborns in the Clock Tower who are born to nobles and their lovers or servants.

Thinking of this, Olga Marie's gaze toward Natsukawa Tora became somewhat distant—she understood, but she would not condone such philandering behavior, especially since he already had a monarch as his fiancée.

Even recklessness has its limits.

Upon hearing Olga Marie's question, Natsukawa Torama, whose face was slightly pale, waved his hand slightly: "Good afternoon, Miss Olga Marie. I'm fine, just a little exhausted. I'll be fine after a rest."

"Master's stamina still needs improvement. Let's start by aiming for ten hours."

Sajou Rei said with a smile.

Unlike Natsukawa Torama, who is a living being, her 100% doll, a magical creation, has the appearance and structure of a living being, but is not a living being in essence. Therefore, even though she hasn't slept all night, she is still very energetic, one could say she is full of energy!

After all, last night she took back all the magic power she had accumulated during the two weeks that Xia Chuanhu was away from her master, with interest, and the huge amount of magic power was still in her body and had not been fully digested, so she had been feeling bloated as if she had eaten too much.

"I will include the physical enhancement course for the master in the daily curriculum from now on. If you want, you can start tonight."

"boom!"

Xia Chuanhu, who had just sat down, bumped his head on the table upon hearing this, startling Olga Marie, who was sitting opposite him: "Hey! Are you really okay? Don't scare me!"

"N-nothing... Um... Lingyi, how about we talk about it? Once a week, instead of every day?"

With Sajou Rei and Sajou Aika as his opponents, who are practically perpetual motion machines, Natsukawa Torama was genuinely a bit intimidated. Atalanta was relatively gentle in comparison. These two would never stop as long as he could move even a single finger!

Seeing Natsukawa Torato's expression, Sajou Rei hesitated for a moment with a conflicted look, then reluctantly nodded: "Since Master requests it this way, then let's arrange it this way. I will arrange a new schedule for Master after we return this time."

"boom!"

Natsukawa Tora slammed his head on the table again—he could easily foresee the uproar that would erupt at home after Sajou Rei made these arrangements. For one thing, Lydia would absolutely not agree. Everyone's allotted time was already limited; if Sajou Rei took a whole day, wouldn't the competition become even fiercer?

Before he could say anything more, Sajou Rei sat down next to him: "Instead of that, what would you like to eat for lunch, Master? Lunch here can be delivered directly after you place an order. I recommend some yang-nourishing foods."

(I might have to trouble you again tonight, Master~~~ After all, my other self is a little greedy~~~)

Upon hearing the last sentence transmitted directly from his brain, Xia Chuanhu felt a sharp pain in his lower back and his face turned even paler.

Because there were many people at home, Sajou Rei and Aika behaved normally, so he didn't think much of it. But now that there were no one in his way, how could these two continue to suppress him? This was a point that Natsukawa Tora overlooked.

If he had known this would happen, he would have insisted on bringing Artoria or Okita Souji along!

Having overheard the entire conversation between the two, Olga Marie was filled with doubt—what were they talking about? For a monarch's husband to be unable to hold his head high in front of a mere maid was truly shameful!

25. The suppressive force of perpetual motion machines

After the little farces orchestrated by Natsukawa Torato and Sajou Rei ended.

Perhaps it was due to her aristocratic upbringing, but like most magicians that Natsukawa Torato had met, Olga Marie leisurely took a sip of her specially brewed black tea before speaking to him.

"Mr. Natsukawa, may I ask you some questions?"

"Hmm? May I ask?"

"Regarding your purpose for boarding this train," Olga Marie asked, "I received some information from my father that you boarded the Magic Eye Collection Train on his behalf to protect me, is that right?"

Natsukawa Tora paused, stopping his eating. "Yes, that's true. Of course, whether or not I should offer help when you encounter difficulties is up to me to decide."

So...you might not protect me?

"To put it bluntly—unless you have truly exhausted all available means and found yourself in a truly hopeless situation that you cannot resolve with all the power you have at your disposal, I will not save you."

Natsukawa Tiger smiled and said, "Let me give you an example you can understand. Suppose all the passengers on this train are your enemies, and your attendant Theresa is secretly killed after boarding, forcing you to deal with an entire train full of enemies by yourself—I would only intervene if it came to that."

"Of course, in reality, you've already done a lot of work by taking about a third of the trains. I'm not ruthless to that extent, so the conditions for my intervention are relatively lenient."

After hearing this brief explanation, Olga Marie roughly understood Natsukawa Torato's purpose for coming on this train, as well as his standards of conduct.

He was indeed asked by her father to come, but he wouldn't blindly place her under his protection. Instead, he would watch her solve the problem herself and only intervene when she truly couldn't solve it no matter what.

This was exactly what Olga Marie was thinking. If a bodyguard suddenly appeared who was always by her side, even if he was such a handsome and refreshing young man, she would still feel resentful.