Author Junk: This story is my first Mai Otome fic and a bit of a spur-of-the-moment thing, so excuse me for any errors.


Confessions of a Conquistadora


I am Chie Hallard. I used to be a student at Garderobe, where I was one of the top students. In reality, I am a Major in the Aries forces and a Meister Otome, with my own squad at my command. None of that is important.

Back in Garderobe, I discovered I had a special talent for wooing underclassmen. The younger girls of the school I could work like puppets. With a wave of my hand I could make them blush and with a few choice words I could make them scream. With a blue rose in hand I led conquest after conquest of those innocent young maidens. It was fun, as long as I didn't let it dwell on my conscience.

In reality I was very lonely. I'd earned a reputation and couldn't really make any close friends, so I just held on to my façade of a confident conquistadora of the maidens. I thought it was better that people saw me as a heartless person than someone who was weak. No one would expect that a confident and powerful Otome was really only looking for love.

The thing was I didn't know where to look for love. It was something I knew I wanted, but wasn't sure how to spot. I saw a cute girl and honed in and after a few hours of treating her to the princely poise of my pretense, I'd realize that this was no more meaningful than any of the other flings I'd made my bed out of. It made me feel empty. I was a hollow shell.

That was until I met a very special girl, she worked as a maid in the Windbloom castle. I knew she was special from the moment I met her. I wanted to really stand out to her, so I did it the only way I knew how. The thing was, nothing happened. I tried my whole arsenal of poetic and amorous words and enough innuendo to turn a convent red with embarrassment. All with a blue rose in my hand.

I got nothing from her. No swooning or blushing, just friendly nodding and casual banter. She was someone who I could talk to like a friend. Of course I had an image to uphold so whenever someone asked about us, I'd make it sound like she was no more than my most recent conquest. But of course she was more than that, much more. Aoi Senoh was an angel to me, a gift from God, and an irreplaceable friend.

Because she was the only girl that didn't fall for me, she was the first girl I fell for. And I fell hard.