Chapter 1 – 1. The Duke’s First Sabotage
==== Eros Paradise Rule Book Ver. 1.00 ====
Article 1. All participants participating in Eros Paradise can check their current status and rule book at any time.
Article 2. 100 sub-race couples newly married after 0:00 on January 1, 5000 by the Goddess Calendar are eligible to participate.
Article 2 Section 3. As soon as you decide whether or not to participate, you will be on standby until the application deadline.
Article 2 Section 6. Before all 100 pairs are recruited, if there is a vacancy among the waiting list, participants will be recruited again.
Article 3. As soon as all participants are on standby, the abilities according to the racial characteristics of the sub-race are revealed, and pure-race participants share the abilities of their spouses.
Article 4. All participants maintain the healthiest and most beautiful body condition from the time they are waiting to participate until the final winner is determined.
Article 4 Section 1. All participants do not age from the time they are waiting for participation until the time it ends.
Article 4 Section 2. However, for participants whose body has started aging, aging stops and the body is reactivated in the most beautiful period.
Article 4 Section 4. All participants will be immune from all existing naturally occurring diseases from the time of waiting to participate.
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– One –
The Duke of Regal, who had spent his first night in Chiba like an animal, came out to the study alone.
It was because her first experience was so intense that she couldn’t stand up.
She was just starting to read the rule book, which she had been devouring all night long over her body.
And he focused on a few items, and he was soon swept away with ecstasy.
‘You can enjoy eternal life if you are permanently stuck in the state of waiting to participate!’
Is eternal life a problem?
You can completely escape from death caused by aging and disease, which are the essential mechanisms of life.
You can also become young again at the age of middle age.
I am grateful for these blessings alone, but I have been given a new superpower.
Even though he only participated last night, he felt that his body was energized and that the strength lost through aging was returning.
‘Status window.’
=================== Status window ===================
▶ Name: Regal B. Whisky
▶ Gender: Male
▶ Participation number: 1
▶ Total affection: 2
▶ Ability Phase: 2 (Detect Greed)
▶ Number of surviving participants: 1
▶ Message from the Goddess: May the No. 1 contestant couple have affection!
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We’ll have to take a closer look at what kind of ability Greed Sensing is, but he’s already very satisfied.
‘I’m going to have to give a separate big reward to Mrs. Godiva.’
Godiva possessed the ability to convert the compatibility between a man and a woman he saw in person into numerical values.
She was one of the few rare talents in the world.
She was a sub-racial woman who succeeded greatly by arranging the most suitable spouses for nobles through him.
Regal also wanted to marry the most compatible woman for her heir, and she became her client.
But at the top of Godiva’s list of women, there were only subracial women.
Regal had a strong reluctance to accept a non-pure race as a companion.
He hoped that there would be no noise regarding the maintenance of the legitimacy of the nobility and the succession of the fittest.
Because of this, I wanted to exclude all elements that could come out behind the scenes.
‘It was really hard to make a decision.’
However, all the aristocratic families that married the opposite sex who got the highest score on Godiva’s recommended spouse list are enjoying their prime at the time.
It’s all about gahwa.
The family was harmonious and the companion could not make up for his lack, so he created positive synergy.
So, how could the heyday of the family not come?
On the other hand, those who married the second-best member of the opposite sex were different because of external factors such as family, appearance, race, and property of the best member of the opposite sex.
The family just maintained the status quo.
These cases shook his mind.
In the end, she chose to marry Chiba, a sub-racial woman but from a wealthy sub-racial family who scored 99 out of 100 on the compatibility score.
‘And her wife cutely and arbitrarily signed up.’
His choice came back with the best result of the immense blessing of the goddess.
So how can you not be happy as a Regal?
‘But blessings can be conditional and eternal.’
Yes.
The blessings of the goddess can only be enjoyed until the end of the event planned by her goddess.
So he was troubled.
‘I am the first participant.’
This in itself is a great fortune.
As her own wedding was held to coincide with the 5000th year of her goddess calendar, she became the first participant.
He himself is the only duke of the world’s only continent’s only unified empire.
In other words, he was able to make legislative acts according to his own taste through the Imperial Headquarters’ Presidency Conference.
As a result, they have the ability to devise and enforce laws only for themselves.
‘I have to monopolize the blessing.’
Regal began weaving sabotage to fend off latecomers.
‘First of all, the union between the pure race and the sub-race is unconditionally prohibited.’
He started writing down his plans on paper.
‘The law should ban heterogeneous marriage.’
He wasn’t stupid.
He was a seasoned politician who fully knew the importance of cause.
‘The justification is to make a deal with the temple and announce that the goddess has issued an oracle that a child born from a heterogeneous marriage will lead to a great crisis on the continent.’
Also, she was wise enough not to punish the goddess for stealing her own name and publishing her false oracles.
And he was flexible enough not to feel remorse about these things.
He was indeed a great ruler of a great empire.
‘If there are latecomers, I put them under my management. When the number of new participants increases, the number of waiting lists is controlled by quietly disposing of those under management.’
Also, he was brutal enough.
‘There are some clauses that bother me, so I guess I’ll have to experiment with the people under management.’
Besides, he was very arrogant.
It was because he firmly believed that shamelessness was the greatest virtue of a ruler who had to hold the center.
‘If you make an issue of your wife’s race, I declare that you have sworn to the goddess not to have an heir.’
If he lived forever anyway, the successor would be just another name for his competitor, so he had no regrets about him.
‘First of all, legislation will take some time, so in the meantime, the first priority is to inspect the participants so that they can take action at any time.’
With my daughter
“Hey, call the butler.”
Regal called the butler and summoned Godiva.
– 2 –
“Welcome, Ms. Godiva.”
As Godiva walked in cautiously, she noticed Regal.
Regal was known for her signature blank expression and not giving any clues about her feelings to her mates.
So it was difficult for her to know whether he had called her to congratulate her or if she was calling him because he had a flaw in the marriage.
So she decided to lie flat.
“Your Highness, please tell us what the problem is. We will do everything possible.”
As she hunched her back, only the top of her head was visible from Regal’s seat.
Regal kept her silence, not telling her to get up and take her seat.
While in the imperial political world for a long time, he demonstrated the living skills he had acquired to take the initiative even in these private situations.
“The reason I called you is to propose a business, nothing else.”
He did not tell her to sit down, nor did he tell her that her marriage was ok.
However, after a long silence, he only brought up the main point.
The astute will realize that this is not the place to blame.
If not, it will be useless and business discussions will be non-existent.
Regal liked the quick-witted because they were competent, and tolerated a little arrogance in such people.
It was his own extremely practical dragon trick.
“What business are you talking about?”
Godiva was such a competent person, and he immediately noticed the meaning hidden between the lines of his words.
She was someone who knew the lines of the Regal, and naturally sat in the chair across from him, even though he didn’t allow it.
“To increase the size of a business using your specialty.”
Godiva noticed that Regal was planning to use her matchmaking skills more actively.
In addition, he concluded that he is a top performer in this business.
It is because only she can quantify the compatibility between her man and woman in her time.
“What target and scale do you anticipate?”
“Targets are men and women from all empires who are about to get married. The scale is, of course, all continents.”
Godiva counted.
“Do you have a way to make the physically impossible possible?”
“Of course there is.”
Regal had her maid serve her tea.
Sensing that he had passed the test in selecting his business partner, Godiva leisurely savored the scent of tea.
“First of all, the average number of marriages reported every year by the 50 million commoners of the Empire is about 400,000.”
Regal looked at the documents and continued.
“Among these, the number of first marriages excluding remarriages is about 360,000.”
Godiva quietly nodded his head.
“I will legislate a law that makes it compulsory for you to look at the compatibility, targeting only those who post their first marriage.”
“Are you going to start a business after the law is enacted?”
“I’ll start the business right away. However, until the legislation is completed, announce that you will provide compatibility for free of charge in the case of a marriage between a sub-race and a pure-race.”
“Do you mean to implement the opening discount without disclosing the end of the discount?”
“Accurate.”
Regal smiled for the first time since she entered her drawing room.
Even if she only threw out a few words, she immediately understood what he was saying.
“And let’s discuss the issue of physical distance. You can see compatibility with your subjects even when you are not in the same room. Isn’t it?”
“That’s right. Even if the faces and names of the subjects are identified through portraits and documents, you can find out their compatibility with the Goddess-given ability.”
“If so, you can find out the compatibility just by watching the target through the installation type communication magic tool.”
“It is.”
He calculated the investment amount for a moment.
“Then open a branch of your business in every castle, city, and village in the entire empire, and run it in the form of an unmanned store.”
“And I only have to answer the total compatibility score of those requested by the head office and receive the usage fee?”
“Yes. Assuming you spend 10 hours a day looking at compatibility, and it takes 20 seconds for a pair of users to see compatibility, you can see up to 1800 matches a day.”
“If you work without rest, you will be able to see it that way.”
“It is calculated that 200 days is enough to see the compatibility of 360,000 pairs.”
“If you proceed as you said, it will be possible to see the compatibility of all couples born within the year.”
Godiva accepted the Duke’s plan and continued.
“Compulsory to check compatibility, before that, attracting customers with free discount events only for interracial marriages. Are you trying to collect information on those who are planning to marry between pure and sub-races through this?”
“That’s right. You just need to make a huge profit from this business, and my goal is to recover the investment and at the same time take information on prospective couples of pure and sub-races.”
Godiva pondered for a while based on the information he was given, then continued.
“Did the Goddess bestow a blessing on the union between the two species?”
Regal showed her teeth and smiled.
That smile gave Godiva goosebumps.
“The talent of reading the context between the lines is excellent, and those who know how to utilize it without hiding it are truly rare.”
She swallowed her dry saliva.
“But it’s hard to die from expulsion if you say that you know something you don’t need to know.”
She hastily nodded her head.
“Knowing that you are still an irreplaceable resource, remember that there are limits to the arrogance to be trembling.”
“Ah, I understand, Your Highness.”
“I’ll deliver the business plan and budget to the butler, so let’s proceed.”
At the clear banquet order, Godiva cautiously backed out of his office.
Regal felt the need to proceed with her temple as well, and poured her cooled tea water into her mouthful.