Chapter 50
Translator - Zofu
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After another steamy night passed, the Emperor didn't change his mind and break his verbal contract with the Princess, nor did he try to kick her out of the palace. He didn't even attempt to make the terms more favorable to himself. However, thinking he'd conceded too much, he did add one thing.
"I see you're wearing your mask again today—guess you're ditching state affairs for another round. But why'd you call me again? Already run out of the drug? That trunk should've contained hints about the manufacturing method, right? Ever since I took Maki in as my maid, I've been so busy with her pussy and ass that I haven't had a moment's rest from all the juices."
"Well, you're right. Thanks to that hint you snuck in, the smart folks gathered here could speed up drug production a bit. That's not why I called you today, though. Everything's fine, but if you want to keep that bitch as your maid, just keep making her dress in those lewd outfits."
"Of course. I was planning to do that even without you calling me out here to say it. From now on, Maki will serve only me as my personal handmaid, replacing Carnelian."
"Handle Carnelian however you want. That's good news to hear. Don't go back on your word later. Now go attend to your business. I've got to get back to mine."
The Emperor's request to the Princess was simple. Since making Kaldir his own anytime soon was unlikely, he asked for her cooperation in his plan to sneak in and out of the Princess's residence, using Kaldir as eye candy to jerk off to.
At this, the Princess scoffed, wondering why he'd bother calling her out just to state the obvious, like saying "1+1=2." Ah... maybe 1+1 doesn't equal 2. If two women each take an egg, mix them together, and implant them in a womb to have a baby... then in that case, 1+1 would equal 4.
"M-Master... You're not even asking... for my opinion..."
This time, Kaldir had been dragged here and forced into a maid-themed micro bikini rather than a bunny girl outfit, and though she protested to her Master, who was pushing the contract forward unilaterally, it was completely useless.
"Do you think the opinion of a mere female slave like you matters here?"
"Even if you talk in that tearful voice, standing here where everyone can see you, all I can think about is fucking you, Maki. You might be pretending to cry right now, but I know you've been dripping love juices on the floor far more than actual tears. Who are you trying to fool? You can't fool my eyes."
Anyway, everyone else also praised the Emperor's decision in unison. They weren't about to put the question of what to do with Kaldir on the meeting agenda and end up in a ridiculous situation where they fought over her and tore her apart, but they did find it a shame to lose their chance to paw at her forever.
"As expected! His Majesty the Emperor is wise! He's truly fit to lead this Empire in the future!"
"Thanks to His Majesty's correct decision, we've secured an enormous financial resource... How could we not praise such benevolence?"
Even if the Emperor had wanted to end the contract with the Princess, after the Viceroy and Bilnave, dozens of powerful nobles from the solar system had decided to latch onto this aphrodisiac sales business, so he couldn't ignore so many collaborators' opinions and expel the Princess, who was the biggest supplier.
"I thought you might be getting bored, so I've brought a new series today. What you've been using so far is 'Alpha (α)'. As you well know, it heats up females' bodies and makes them cling to males first. And this 'Beta (β)' I've brought today has the exact opposite effect..."
The Princess cleverly mixed new products with existing ones, ensuring customers had no choice but to continue dealing with her, selling them at the price of her stay in the palace, earning everyone's praise.
Beta, which drives females into extreme arousal but leaves them powerless to resist males who try to rape them, was welcomed with thunderous applause and entered the market alongside the first product, Alpha.
In fact, Beta, the follow-up series, was released at a higher price than the first product, Alpha. There were quite a number of males who fantasized about making resistant females powerless and then forcibly raping them.
The collective name chosen for Alpha, Beta, and subsequent series was 'Kaldir Cocktail', and despite its absurdly high price, Kaldir Cocktail gained the glory of rapidly replacing existing drugs thanks to the nobles' business spreading everywhere.
Unlike the poor suckers who had to pay the arbitrarily set prices, the initial collaborators who got the valuable opportunity to try samples for free continued to test the products they were selling in various ways while opening distribution channels, revealing all their properties.
"In all my life, I've never seen a drug this effective. I feel like I've lived my whole life in vain until now. You could divide your life into before and after learning about this."
"Just to test it, I tried it on my bitch wife who'd been acting so arrogant toward me for over ten years, and seeing that after ten years made my cock stand at attention, and I fucked her ten times right then and there."
"Yeah, the effect is strong, and I've never seen anything this addictive. The artificial endorphin synthesis business will go into decline. I'm even worried about what those dark alley scum might say."
"Exactly. Not to mention endorphins, but weaker drugs will be completely wiped out."
"If we give our dark alley friends a chance to get in on this business, those hyenas will gladly jump in."
"It's a shame we'll have to share with them, but this amount of money is too scary to hoard just among ourselves. Hundreds of billions of CED for just one syringe—how many slaves would that even buy?"
And so it was. It had only been a few days since the business started, but the money collected had already surpassed 100 trillion CED. Of course, there were several major nobles present for whom that amount was pocket change, but if you could make a profit greater than three months' wages of 100 trillion slave workers just by selling a product made by filling about 10ml of liquid into a syringe... it was basically free money.
"Our dark alley friends will probably be too busy passing around the product among themselves to actually sell it properly. But you know, is it just the effect and addiction that's outstanding? It doesn't affect males but causes extreme withdrawal in females. The experience of a female begging 'It's too, too painful... please give me that injection...' while sucking my cock with her mouth... someone who hasn't tried it wouldn't understand."
"Ah, I know that very well. So I skipped meals and fucked her countless times... hehehe... And even after injecting the same bitch multiple times, that tremendous effect remained as strong as the first time. Plus, there's no tolerance buildup... it's perfect in every way."
In summary, their stories went like this: First, the effect is powerful. Second, the addiction is tremendous. Third, it only works on females. Fourth, withdrawal symptoms occur immediately if not administered for a certain period. Fifth, no tolerance develops.
Yes, I did well. Dozens of people have already become hooked on this drug more powerful than any narcotic, and if I were to say something foolish and cause the deal to fall through... would I be facing a coup?
The Emperor thought that if he made a foolish choice, the nobles might drive him out and install a new Emperor for cutting off a business that brought them supreme pleasure and unimaginable financial gain. If the reason for his deposition was something like that, nothing could be more humiliating. Such a fate was absolutely unacceptable.
As time passed, it would become even more difficult to break this contract. Among the hypocritical nobles who pretended to be noble in public while enjoying degenerate orgies in private, this product's popularity would only rise, never fall.
If they established a corporation to handle this product's production right away, it would immediately become a world-leading enterprise... Ah, yes. A world-leading enterprise. Once word gets out beyond the borders, there'll be no shortage of people begging for more. Expanding distribution while raising prices under all sorts of pretenses... my wallet would become much fuller. Just imagining it lifts my mood.
While the Emperor was busy painting a rosy future in his head and missed the appointed contract time, withdrawing his attention from her, the Princess was able to rise to an absolute position within her own palace. Even the Persephone family and the Governor's Office, who wielded real power behind the scenes with a puppet Emperor, tolerated her. What right did mere maids have to stop her?
"After all, Maki, you don't have many things to do on Earth besides meeting me, right? So let's just stay in my palace like this for a few days before we go for the formal introduction."
"I-I am merely your faithful handmaid... I only do as you command..."
"Good, you know your place. But if you knew it so well, why were you so tearful in front of your big brother?"
"Th-That... I was embarrassed..."
"Don't be ridiculous. I saw with my own eyes how you were pretending to cry while your mouth corners lifted up in joy."
Though it meant showing Maki to my big brother, with whom I wasn't particularly close, before showing her to my parents, aside from the formal introduction, Maki had one more reason to meet my father: cooperation regarding the anti-Lucid resistance movement.
However, since that meeting didn't need to happen immediately, the Princess decided to officially appoint Kaldir as a Lady's Maid and have her accompany her around the palace.