This was one of these days. The sun breaches into the huge arched window as Martha opened her eyes, looking down on her large chest.
'Huh.. Damn it was 19 years in this new world, right? As a princess… Jesus..' She said in her mind as she turned around to notice the maid standing in front of her.
"Milady, please get up, you will be late for breakfast." Said a female in a uniform that is reminiscent of French Victorian maids. Redhead maid was rather usual in terms of looks. Boobs? Definitely DDs. But what Martha got her eyes on, was her cat ears. Felines, one of the races in this world, that thanks to the pact with the Tiritium - the Felinids are in the full servitude mode in exchange for protection for their state that borders the empire. It is big but has problems developing on its own, so it became a protectorate.
"Mom, I do not want to go to school," Martha said as she confused Anna, the maid.
"But miss, I am not your mom. It's Anna." Anna said as she kneeled before her and put her hand on her shoulder, pushing her softly up and down.
"I know, mom.. Give me a few minutes. Ugh." Martha said with a sleepy but cute accent, making the maid chuckle.
"Oh please. Do get some rest… Unless you want to eat a cold meal." This made Martha get up quickly, lifting up the quilt in the air, and turning around, to Anna, who witnessed the Princess in all her nude glory. J-cup-sized breasts, hips that could easily bear triplets, ass big enough to make any man hard just by looking at her.
"Oh.. My my… So lewd of you, to sleep nude, princess. What if, it was another servant, hum~?" Anna asks with aroused tone as she put her hand on the mouth and turned around, blushing a bit.
"Anna… You know I sleep naked, right? I can't fall asleep otherwise." Martha said as she smiled, and got out of the bed. "Where are my clothes, dear?"
"Umm." Anna thought for a second as she went to the wardrobe and pulled out a dress. It was made out of silk, with a large red stripe on the sides and a black one in the middle. The dress also consisted of white sleeves with black stripes and the middle of it was all red with a stripe in the middle. Martha put it on and went outside to the dining hall on the first floor, where her father, the Emperor, her 2 sisters, her six brothers… and her mother, the Empress waited.
"Oh, Martha. Finally.. Why are you always so late, dear?" Emperor asked as he looked at her. The oldest from the people that met before the table. He was balding, mid-40s…
"Sorry father, just… It is problematic for me to sleep recently." Martha said as she sighed, noticing her favorite food. The hard-cooked eggs and a white Barsch. Aside from there was plenty of other dinner food like the fishes or chickens.
"We were talking with Emilia, and we considered that you need higher education," Emperor said as he sighed, as he cut off some meat piece from the cutlet, eating it.
"Dad, I think homeschooling," Martha said as her mother interpreted.
"Is not sufficient. Robert is right, my dear." Emilia said as she smiled, trying to hide her anger from her most capable daughter. "Imperial Arcane Academy delivers the best and brightest minds. Not just Mages.. But we want to make sure you are a mage indeed." Emilia said as she sighed. "You tell her, Robert."
"All right." The sight of not relief but upset, let out of his throat, as he looked at his oldest daughter. "Martha. The academy is the best course of action. You are in fact the oldest, most capable child in my family for taking the throne right now. I care for the succession of the throne and I want you to rule the best way we can. I do not want a repeat of Edward IIIrd the Impaler. You understand me, right, honey?" Robert asks her as she looks at him with nervousness.
"But I am not Edward the Impaler. I am Martha Woulfe. Not Edward who's relatives is known for being crazy besides…" Martha yells out as she finishes the soup early. "WHY THE FUCK THEY ALLOW HIM TO SIT ON THE THRONE WHEN THEY KNEW HE IS CRAZY. THEY COULD GET BETTER RESULTS IF THEY LET THE PEASANTS VOTE IN A LEADER!" Martha yelled out in criticism of the father's cousin's family.
"Are you hearing yourself?" Robert got up as put his hand on the table. "Martha, peasants voting in a monarch? You crazy?"
"This is exactly the level of craziness that Edward Impaler was involved win. Or could if he decided to pull that off. What I say… I will not lead to situations that Edward did like 20 yearlong famine. I am smarter than that."
"Sorry, my dear just… Mistakes from the past.." Robert said as Martha interrupted.
"Fine fine, are not to be repeated. I will go… But what you will do if my affinity for magic will be high?" Martha asked as she stood still, not hungry, with her hands under her chest.
"Eh…. You will still have the right to the throne, but also.. Have a right to join in the military career. Like everyone in the family." Robert said as he smiled gently, trying to make the best of it.
"Father… Girls in the army? Really? Crazier than peasants voting in a king, you know?" Martha says with sarcasm as she makes Emilia laugh.
"Martha, dear. Even I served in the army, simply because I felt like its fun. I know it is not, but you evidently need some tempering." Emilia said as she nodded to her, displaying a casual, soft smile.
"Whatever mother." She said as she got out. "I am not hungry."
"But stay for the dessert at least... Martha!" Emilia yelled out as the princess got out of the dining room angry, upset about the arguing.
"Stupid father and his over caring with the history. He is kind of right but still... He knows I am not him." Martha mumbled something under her nose as she went to her room, closing the door and falling on the king-sized bed. "Wish we had laptops. Oh, what I would give for 21st-century pieces of entertainment. Eh." Martha said as she looked on the side of the bed through the castle-style mansion's big window that gives a view of the old market. "Well places, not going to lie," Martha said as she turned around and laid on her bed, only to look at the bystanders and clients.
The marketplace itself is not very big but it looks like it is from the place, Martha looks at it. The bystanders wear rather colorful dresses and clothes. The colors themselves are loud and are not fitting the general elegance low profile taste she holds… Maybe it's her fault for a previous life as a scientist with a minimalistic worldview? Who knows.
What she noticed however as she kept looking was a bookstall with plenty of books. "Wish I could have some binoculars… Or zoom spell or something…" She said as she looked at her hand and turned her around. "Fucking magic and the fact you need to learn it. It's isekai basically. Where are all my super-duper godly powers!? Aaaagh!" She says a bit louder as she grabs her head and turns around when she felt goosebumps.
The familiar rune-covered snake appeared as it turned around a few times to make a circle only to bite itself and turn itself into a fully functional portal.
"Veles?" Martha asks herself as she looks at the familiar portal. She won't forget the moment she agreed.
From the portal, went out a humanoid figure with a head of a pigeon and two horns on the back. This scared the shit out of Martha who jumped out with a scream and pulled back to the wall.
"You fucking scared me!" Martha yells out as she tries to calm herself down. The pigeon-head tried to show a smile but he failed – or failed in her eyes that is.
"Pardon the way I introduced myself. My name is Khaton, the messenger of Veles." He said as he bowed before Martha, with a calm, soft voice. "I came to remind you about your job in this world."
"What is that you want?" Martha asks as she gets up, now calm, as she looks on the messenger and then she looks at the window.
"Well. Just to remind you about the Shrine that Veles wanted you to find." Khanton explained.
"Sadly I did not think, this is going to be hard. You see… Magic." Martha said as Khanton interrupted her.
"Magic will be important to learn, yes. I could suggest going to the Imperial Academy…" Khanton said as he witnessed her being upset.
"You too?" Martha asks as she sighs. "Fine, I will go. But only because I owe Veles for saving my ass at Tokyo Research Facility when that negative matter reactor blew up." Martha said with a bit of annoyance. "He did not resurrect me for amusement."
"Indeed. The time is running out. It might not be like it, but my Lord triangulated the position of seven shrines in this universe. It is a different realm than your own as you see but very close – in terms of how physics works." Khanton explained. "We need access to just one shrine. These creatures are lucky. They sit literally in one of the centers of the universe. 12 to be total. Control one, and you will learn how to get to others."
"They are like giant super quantum computers right?" Martha asked.
"Yes." Khanton conformed. "But they are a billion times more powerful than you ever worked with. Not even Arin was that powerful. She was like a kid compared to its processing power."
"So… Giant alien super-duper mainframe computer.. Why Veles just can't ask for access to the world, the author herself?" Martha asked as she wondered if Veles's intentions were kind-hearted.
"Sadly the author forgot the admin passwords. I mean it." Khanton said with disappointment making the princess laugh.
"Wait wait. Not even a password in a notebook!? What kind of god is she!?" Maria asked as she looked baffled, at Khanton.
"Emm. Goddess of creation. This universe was literally a science project." Khanton said as he sighed.
"By the heavens…. Gods are complicated." Martha said as she looked at the thriving big city under her. "Fine I will go to that academy but… Any advice before I will start to learn?"
"Yes, Martha. Remember everything you knew as Physics Doctor Ishikawa Youji?" Khanton asks if she even memorized the knowledge she hold in her previous life.
"I do. Every theory, every principle, every math equation… Why asking?" Martha asks as she wants to focus on the task as fast as possible.
"Magic is limited by three factors: Creativity, Knowledge, and Your Stomach. Mana is literally represented by Calories here." Khanton said as he smiled. As much as a bird head can.
"I see. Thanks. I will handle the matter as fast as possible." Martha said as she let out a sigh of annoyance, as she looked at the window again.
"Very well. I expect you do well. And in case you need any help where your status will not be able to work it around…" He said as he pulled out something from the robe. A black diamond, shaped in a circle with the symbol of Veles. "Use this. Call me if you need help. It replaces once my help is not needed."
"Thanks. Appreciate that." Martha said as she got the stone from Khanton and he opened a portal.
"By the way. Are there any artifacts needed for opening the vault or something like this?" Martha asks as the serpent shows up and finished making a portal.
"First finish the school. But yes. There are 12 artifacts total." Khanton said as he put his leg through the portal. "See you later, your highness." And vanished.
"Do not call me that," Martha said as she sighed, letting out a bit of air, to lift some of her hair up. "Fucking divinity. Always messing up with the mortal's life."
Martha did not want to waste any time at all. Clearing up the dress, and the mess that is her hair, she went down from her room and closed it, straight to her mother's room, on the third floor of the mansion. Her room is on the first. So two floors of walking down the stairs. "They could make an elevator with magic… ugh," Martha said as she lifted up her dress and went up for two floors, and headed to the right and to the fifth doors on the right side.
"Ah more!" Emilia's moan was definitely something Martha could notice, so she decided to kneel before the door to have a peek through the keyhole.
"No shit!" She says to herself silently as she looks through. "She is doing three men when dad is not looking! This is… Wrong." Martha says under her nose, as she gets up and looks around, to guess where her father might be.
"Throne room. Throne room. First floor!" Martha says to herself as she goes back to the stairs, and to the throne room. Big double doors made out of hardwood reinforced with steel elements in the middle, built as an anti-breaching mechanism. Martha pushes the door a bit to peek inside to see her father is not around.
"Ummm… Dinner room?" Martha asks herself as she closes it and goes to the dining room turning right and opening it, to see some of the members of the family still finishing dinner.
"Oh? Look who came in." Robert looked a bit surprised when he noticed her daughter got back to the dining hall, as those who finished, got out and only his two sons left for extra.
"We need to talk. Fast." Martha said as she came close to her father and whispered into his ears what it is about. "About school and something extra, I want to ask."
"Sure give me a bit," Robert said when Martha smiled as he finished eating and got up. "I will return to dining after a few minutes," Robert said as the servant in the room was cleaning up the left-over dining plates and other dining tools.
"What is it?" He asked as he walked with her to the side, with his hand around her shoulders.
"First.. Can you put in the papers?" Martha asks as her father looks pleased.
"So you are going?" Robert asks as he wants to be sure.
"Yes. But also.. Did you know, that mom is fucking with three dudes in your room?" Martha asks as she looks at him, with the king sighing.
"Ah… That.. I know. It is going for two years actually." Robert says it is nothing new to him and if he knew all along.
"Wait what!?" Martha asks as she is genuinely surprised. "Father, how?"
"Shiiish. Calm down. Not like I am without a fault here. I have three maids to satisfy my sexual urges too… We talked about that for a while." Robert says as Martha looks kind of upset.
"Wait. Who knows?" Martha asks as she kinda cares about the family image.
"Only your mother, partners that we fuck and close aides," Robert says as he smirks. "And one of these aids fuck with us. They are mages that also know how to cast birth control spells essentially."
"Wait, there are birth-control spells!?" Martha asks surprised with a loud tone but she still keeps it as a whisper.
"Yes. There are." Robert smirks as he seems proud of that.
"Damn. Ok, I have a question then. I go to that school. If I find a dude that I could be interested in…. Can I have my own harem of both boys and girls if I feel like it's a good way to go about my urges?" Martha asks without doubt about what she wants to do in school aside from learning that is.
"Hahahaha. That's unexpectedly straightforward. Most girls just will ask it vaguely and you went straight in like a lance through an…" Robert said when Martha interrupted him.
"Dad…." Martha said as she looked a bit disappointed.
"Fine fine. Yes, you can but you would have to end up married to one of these boys. Got it?" Robert asks as he wants to be sure she won't be doing that just for fun.
"Fine. So you see it as marriage partner seeking strategy or something?" Martha asks as she looks at her father.
"Yes. That is how I see it." Robert said with closed eyes as he nodded twice.
"Great." Martha smiled, being pleased with her father's decision.
'Finally some good fucking time with other boys… Time to put my resurrection wish to good use hehe.' Martha commented in her mind as she smirked.
"Now. What you gonna do now?" Robert asks as he looks into her eyes.
"I am going to…. Go to a store and buy me a few books maybe?" Martha said with a questioning tone as she waited to see what her father will say. He lifted the hand from her shoulder and turned around to face her in the eyes.
"But take two bodyguards or maids with you. Your choice. I do not want a second assassination attempt to be stopped by some random on the street. Remember what happened to mom, right?" Robert asks as he makes a point why
"Yea. The drunken bastard wanted to rape-kill her… Sweet Gods.. Seriously, what's wrong with people these days?" Martha asks as her father lets out a sigh of sadness
"Whatever. And let the aide know when you are going out so I do not need to worry about you, okay babe?" Robert asks his daughter as she nods. "Good."
Martha went back to her room, and put on some casual robes, as she wanted to blend in as much as possible into the area of the city. To look as normal as possible. Of course, the guards were also a thing. She went down to the entrance where the guards were about to change shifts.
"Oh, your highness. Good day to you." A guard in a plate armor that resembled that of a late-roman soldier said.
"I am not so sure if it is all that good, Jim. I need you two with casual clothes on. I'm going out on a walk." Martha said with a peacefull voice as she looked at the two guards at the entrance.
"And just when we were about to switch the shifts, Roger," Jim said as he let out a sigh of annoyance.
"I will compensate you for that time," Martha said as the guards nodded.
"Fine then, Princess. Give us a few minutes to dress up." Martha nodded when Roger and Jim went out to their rooms and changed into casual merchant clothes. All three resembled poor merchants to be specific.
"Shall we?" Princess asks as her two guards nod, revealing the concealed carried swords, and the iron plates under their robes. "Good. Let us go then."
The princess and the guards went out to the city, with two servants that are in the castle, talking about this.