Chapter 6 – 6. The First Duke to Train the Duke’s Agents
==== Eros Paradise Rule Book Ver. 1.00 ====
Article 2 Section 5. However, participants who choose to refuse to participate or drop out while waiting for participation will be permanently disqualified from participating.
Article 3 Section 1. All participants can develop the status of this ability from stage 1 to stage 8 (ultimate) in proportion to their total affection.
Article 3 Section 2. Participants quantify the degree of affection for their spouse and each other in 8 stages, and set the lower value of the two as the value of the total degree of affection.
Article 3 Section 4. This ability becomes twice as strong for each stage of flowering, and each time a new stage blooms, a new more powerful ability is acquired.
Article 3 Section 5. If the overall affection level is lowered, the blooming stage of the phase of the ability will decrease in proportion to it, and the most recently acquired ability will be lost.
Article 5. The first participant to reach the ultimate affection level is the final winner.
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– One –
The business of the Regal Duke and Lady Godiva went smoothly.
This is because Godiva’s compatibility analysis was far more accurate than simply reading fortune telling or fortune-telling.
Pure-race and non-race couples visited Godiva’s compatibility analysis office for free compatibility.
At first they saw a match, but didn’t take it seriously.
Whether the outcome was good or bad, I got married.
The duke sent his men to inspect them.
Those who had good compatibility scores said that Godiva was right and enjoyed their newlyweds happily.
Those who had poor compatibility scores bitterly regretted their newlyweds, saying that Godiva was right.
After word of mouth spread like that, many people started looking for Godiva’s compatibility analysis office.
And the prospective couples were happy to analyze Godiva’s compatibility.
In the case of a bad compatibility, the extreme ones did not hesitate to break up the engagement right away.
She visited her compatibility analysis office hand in hand with new people every day.
– Currently, an average of 1,500 prospective couples a day come to see the compatibility within 2 months of opening.
“How many of them come to me to get married between the two species?”
– It’s extremely rare. You can think of it as about one pair out of about 30,000 pairs.
Regal looked at the list in her hand.
‘There are 12 couples and 24 people, including me, who have been identified so far. Hmm. Status window.’
================== Status window ==================
▶ Name: Regal B. Whisky
▶ Gender: Male
▶ Participation number: 1
▶ Total affection: 4
▶ Ability Phase: 4 (Detect Greed)
▶ Number of survivors: 16
▶ Message from the Goddess: May the No. 1 contestant couple have affection!
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‘Hmm? Suddenly, the number of participants increased by one.’
As Regal’s eyebrows furrowed, she carefully corrected her posture before asking Godiva.
– Your Highness, are there any inadequacies in my report?
“No, it’s not. But I thought there were more people than expected who got married without looking at compatibility.”
– Ah. The business is still in its infancy, so it is relatively unknown. Also, getting married in a remote area…
He seemed to have only pushed Godiva so far, so he smiled a little sorry.
“No, I didn’t mean to blame you. I expected that much too.”
– Do you see the need to increase publicity a little more?
Regal shook her head.
“No. However, the increase in participants was faster than expected, so don’t worry, I was just thinking about speeding up the passage and implementation of the bill.”
Godiva let out a sigh of relief.
“So, without missing anything, collect and send only the information of prospective couples who will combine with each other.”
– I understand, Your Highness.
After that, Regal disconnected her.
Regal’s routine had just begun.
– 2 –
After a regular report with Godiva, Regal had a brief tea time with his wife, Chiba.
The overall affection of the participants is the royal road to the final victory once the skirmish begins.
Also, it was the only way to make his enlightened abilities even stronger.
So, even in the middle of his busy life, he always tried to keep his relationship with his wife from becoming estranged.
Not only that, but the bed was intense every day.
Thanks to the provision of infertility, there was no need to worry about her pregnancy.
And she didn’t run the moon anymore.
It was a very attractive blessing to him because he had no confidence to have intercourse while watching the blood.
‘There really wasn’t a monster last night.’
He headed to the basement research wing of the mansion, enjoying deep spiritual satisfaction from the fact that his chaste wife was so active and demanding only in her bedroom.
At the entrance of the underground research building, the chief researcher who greeted him was waiting wearing a blue sanitary suit.
“How is the experiment going today?”
Together with the researcher, he headed to the laboratory where the experimental participants were confined.
“The former couple in No. 16, who conducted the voluntary drop-out experiment yesterday, could not find a way to participate again.”
“Hmm. Are there any expedients?”
“That’s right.”
“What about mutual cross-validation after separation between husband and wife?”
“All statements were the same in procedures such as hypnosis statements and lie detection, torture, etc.”
“I see. Even if they voluntarily get off without killing them and then release them, the number of participants can be controlled.”
The researcher thought for a moment and shook his head.
“Hana kill is effective to prevent rumors that may displease Her Highness.”
Regal agreed with him, but he couldn’t help thinking of an exception.
“But even if everyone kills them, they’re not the ones who don’t get hurt.”
“What exceptions are you referring to?”
“Do you think murder is possible even if the participants are high-ranking nobles or members of the imperial family?”
The researcher was taken aback.
“Certainly, in that case, it would be more efficient to induce abandonment through trade rather than killing.”
“Heh. But eternal life. I don’t know what the price would be to make them give up eternal life.”
“Shouldn’t we make them weigh eternal life and survival?”
“Will you live safely under my protection, or will your family perish in my hands while aiming for eternal life?”
“That’s right.”
“That’s one way. I’ll have to think about other countermeasures.”
Regal and the researcher arrived at the lab before they knew it.
“Ah ah ah ah!”
“Aaaaagh! Regal son of a bitch! Kill me!”
In the laboratory, men of a race and women of a pure race were being tortured naked.
“What kind of experiment is this?”
Regal frowned at the smell of her thick pus and asked the researcher.
“This is an experiment to verify the correlation between the development phase of this ability and the change in physical ability.”
“What has been verified so far?”
“Currently, he is no different from a normal, healthy person unless he has a body enhancement system.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. Didn’t His Highness the Duke’s ability to detect greed bloom in the order of detecting the existence of greed, then detecting greedy targets, detecting greed intensity, and then detecting detailed greed?”
“That’s right.”
Regal’s ability was purely a detection system.
And the higher the status, the clearer the greed the other person has.
“Based on this tendency of enlightenment, if we can infer that Your Highness has reached its ultimate stage of enlightenment, it will be possible to detect something close to mind-reading at the moment someone desires something.”
Regal was feeling it too.
At first, when he activates Desire Detection, he only detects the presence or absence of desire in others.
But soon, the general affection between him and Chiba increased, and the stage of blooming of the status of the ability also increased.
Then, it became possible to detect the intensity and content of desire in a relatively specific way.
“On the other hand, Your Highness’s body is just rejuvenated and healthy, and compared to before awakening, your physical abilities are not 16 times greater.”
Regal affirmed and agreed to that as well.
The researchers reported the following findings.
“Through hypnosis and brainwashing, an experiment was conducted to artificially increase and then lower the level of affection. As a result, any subject in the same phase always developed the same ability as the previously developed ability.”
“In other words, even if you artificially lowered the ability of a test subject that had bloomed to level 3 to level 2 and then raised it to level 3 again, did you mean that the same ability as the previous level 3 developed?”
“That’s right.”
The researcher took a moment to organize his thoughts and articulated his words.
“Based on these facts, the current scenario is as follows. When organizing a unit of people with special powers in the future, after capturing the participants, try to bloom up to a phase that can be artificially controlled. We will assume that this is the 5th stage.”
Regal nodded his head as if to continue.
“In case of blooming up to 5 stages by controlling the overall degree of affection, and if the test subject develops this useful ability, one of the test subjects is placed in a state of suspended animation and confined to the life support device. This is called a safety device.”
In the research wing in the basement of Regal’s mansion, a terribly inhumane and cruel plan was being established.
“The remaining one is given physical freedom, but for the stability of control, through brainwashing, the level of personal affection and development of abilities is lowered by two levels. We will call this a usable combatant.”
For all participants, the status of this ability blooms based on the total affection between the couple.
In other words, it was a plan that took advantage of the fact that if only one person’s affection level fell, the couple’s overall affection level would decrease.
“In the process of processing available combatants, when available combatants recognize a specific mark, a psychological trigger is triggered, suggesting that their personal affection level rise by one or two stages temporarily.”
“So, while normally maintaining the status of available combatants’ abilities at level 3, in an emergency, etc., As if triggering their latent ability, you mean that the phase is limitedly enhanced to level 4 or 5?”
“Yes. In normal times, we maintain level 3. However, in emergency situations, level 4 is used, and during special attacks such as suicide attacks, level 5 is used.”
“Okay, I’ll be able to have both stability and practicality.”
Regal was aware of the brutality of the plan to create a unit of people with special abilities and use them as operatives.
Also, he wasn’t conceited that coercive control could always be perfect.
So he asked the research team for a plan to limit the ability of this person normally and only strengthen it when necessary.
In accordance with Regal’s request, the research team conceived and verified a scenario for controlling people with special abilities.
After hearing the interim report, Regal was very satisfied.
‘My wife gave me a pretty good opinion.’
A few months ago, Chiba offered advice to Regal when a bill banning interracial marriage was delayed.
The advice was nothing special.
It was just a matter of time anyway, and if the bill was to be passed someday, it was said that the passage of the bill would be a separate matter and the control of the participants would be implemented first, as if it were subject to post-approval.
However, Chiba went one step further.
It is still before the law is passed and implemented, and the effect of participant control will be insignificant with inspections alone.
So let’s secretly kidnap and imprison the target of the inspection.
If you completely erase them even on paper, their existence disappears from the world.
A few commoners had disappeared anyway, so there wouldn’t be much noise.
Also, let’s use the participants who came into the hands of the king as a test subject rather than killing them.
It is possible to rigorously verify the provisions of the rule book by consuming commoners who have blossomed with this ability that did not exist in the world.
If you study them well and succeed in controlling them, wouldn’t it be possible to mass-produce private soldiers composed of people with special abilities?
When a contestant dies, their spouse dies too, so take one hostage and use the other as an enlisted soldier.
This was her suggestion.
‘I was only going to eliminate commoners while inspecting them, but I gave up.’
Accepting her offer, Regal worked to get her bill passed, while she secretly conducted inspections.
Participant couples 4 to 6 bloomed too quickly and judged that they would be too strong to be kidnapped, so only inspections were conducted and the abduction was abandoned.
Unfortunately, Godiva and his enlisted couple were not able to find the couples of participants 2, 3, and 7.
The couple who participated in Hana 8 to 16 were able to successfully kidnap the couple as soon as they became a couple thanks to Godiva.
Because of that, couples No. 8 to 16 were spending their newlywed lives in the hell of royalties every day.
Among them, couple No. 16 had to dispose of the use after the experiment of voluntarily getting off yesterday.
If so, the number of surviving participants in the status window should have been displayed as 15.
However, the number of surviving participants in the status window I checked today was 16.
Because of that, Regal made her aware of the birth of participant #16 last night in a place she didn’t know she knew.
And it will happen again in the future.
However, if the number of participants increases rapidly, the number of participants can be sufficiently controlled by removing the test subject.
‘And incidentally, I’ll have an overwhelming force in my hands.’
As the first step towards gaining absolute power, he has already obtained eternal life.
And if you get overwhelming force, the emperor will be put under his feet.
“To reinforce the plan, hold a meeting of all researchers immediately after tomorrow’s luncheon. I will attend.”
“All right.”
Because Regal got Chiba, every day was very happy.