Chapter 99: It Wasn't a Scam (5)
Chapter 99: It Wasn't a Scam (5)
After our discussion about regenerated virgins.
"I can't just leave like this."
I made a proposal to Charlotte.
"How about we have sex once?"
"Not yet."
"That’s a shame."
The fact that she left the door open with "not yet" was a very good sign.
I sensed that Charlotte was starting to come around, and she seemed to be sizing me up, her eyes lingering as she gauged my worth.
"If I’m going to give you my actual virginity, it’ll be when I’ve become a bit more sincere about my feelings for the Young Lord, Ruji Fermaton."
"How sincere? Like a man and a woman?"
"Of course not."
Disappointing.
I knew Charlotte was a success-oriented person, but it was still a letdown to be cut off so sharply after she’d teased the possibility.
"Then how much more do I have to build a relationship with you before we can have sex? Is providing the idea for regenerated virgins not enough?"
"Can I be brutally honest with you?"
"Go ahead."
"When Ruji Fermaton has built enough power to act recklessly without having to worry about the Empire's scrutiny."
"......Oho."
Charlotte Weissgarten.
It seemed she was talking about 'sincerity' in a different sense.
"You're serious."
"Naturally. If you possess enough power that I can choose Ruji Fermaton over the Empire, then I will gladly offer Nine-Tail to the Young Lord."
"And if I don't reach that level of satisfaction?"
"Then the Young Lord and I will remain nothing more than business partners."
"Isn't the difficulty level for becoming sex partners usually lower?"
"Not for me."
Charlotte gave a light shrug.
"To have sex with me—to take my virginity—you have to be able to handle the Empire. So, how about it? Shall we lay all our cards on the table?"
"Fine by me."
"Then I'll start—"
"I'll go first."
I pointed downward.
"Once Fermaton has amassed maximum power, I will create a land that no one dares to touch. Using the power of the Infinite Labyrinth."
"That’s what many Fermatons have dreamed of. And it’s also what they’ve all failed at."
"But if I succeed, the story changes."
If neither the Kingdom nor the Empire can dare to shake Fermaton.
If an era comes where the Kingdom and the Empire have to walk on eggshells around Fermaton instead.
"Are you dreaming of becoming a King, Young Lord?"
"No. A President."
"Pardon?"
"It’s a thing."
In this era, the word probably sounded as foreign as 'St. Petersburg' would to a medieval peasant.
Because a President is, literally, a President.
"President…. That’s a strange-sounding word."
"Of course it is. I just made it up."
"How curious. Is it a title?"
"One who stands above both Kings and Emperors."
"A god?"
"Not quite a god."
Charlotte didn't know the word 'President' either.
That’s how much of a neologism it was, completely different from existing terminology.
Someone might ask: Why a President, of all things, and not a King or Emperor?
Am I trying to show off that I was reincarnated from the modern world?
No.
I simply intend to use one thing to destroy both the Kingdom and the Empire.
La Révolution!
To throw the bomb called 'Democracy' at the Kingdom and Empire that oppose Fermaton.
An Imperial President. That’s what I’ll become.
I won't use it for the abolition of the class system or the freedom of the people, but as propaganda to subvert the existing socio-political systems of the Kingdom and the Empire.
"This is the limit of what I can tell a business partner. If you want to hear more of my true intentions, you just have to have sex with me."
"Do you tell everything to the people you have sex with?"
"Of course. You saw Captain Laura who came in earlier, right?"
"Yes. You mean that woman who looks like she has messy sex with the Young Lord every single day?"
"Exactly. She knows everything about me. Even the number of moles under my cock."
"...Isn't that obvious? Since you have sex every day."
"I mean she is a being I share everything with—everything I plan in my head and hold in my heart. More than my mother, Zenith, and more than the Sword's Non-Virgin, Serica, who followed me here."
Charlotte’s eyes wavered significantly.
"I thought she was just a lewd rabbit."
"That’s the point."
See?
Who in the world would think of Laura as my true confidant?
They just think of her as a sex slave who sucks my dick every day.
"The fact that you're giving me this much information means you really want to have sex with me, doesn't it?"
"You hit the nail on the head."
"What if you get played for a fool after giving so much away?"
"The 'Good Ruji' thinks you're not that kind of person; the 'Neutral Ruji' hopes this creates a sense of psychological debt in you; and the 'Evil Ruji' is thinking that if you try to backstab me, I'll hunt you down immediately and take your virginity through rape."
"Wow. You really don't hold back. Saying all that out loud."
"It just shows how comfortable I am talking to you like this."
Charlotte was a smart woman.
I needed to build a good relationship with her to save 'them,' should the need arise.
"Considering the virgins you'll be selling me in the future, I could treat you even better than I am now."
"Could you lower my taxes a bit?"
"Well, how about I create a 'Model Taxpayer Award' and cut your annual taxes by 10%?"
"If you did that, I’d be drooling in my sleep. Yes. I’ll make sure all the virgins brought in as slaves wear chastity belts so their virginity is guaranteed."
"You catch on quick."
One of the reasons I looked around Nine-Tail was to buy 3-Star or Limited Characters if they were captured as slaves.
Or even to buy Standard Gacha Characters if they ended up as slaves.
Since Charlotte knew how much I loved virgins, she would show the 'merchandise' to me first for the sake of our productive future.
And I would buy them.
As members of my Knight Order.
"I'll tell you one more thing. I told Laura about all these plans, but there’s one thing I haven't told her."
"What is it?"
"That what I desire is to be President."
Specifically, the title of 'President.'
Forget democracy; at a point where slaves are being bought and sold, democracy is a long shot.
Naturally, a President—the king of democracy—is also a long shot.
I felt a bit uneasy using the word 'President,' a word clearly from another world and a concept that didn't even exist yet.
However.
"Charlotte Weissgarten. I'll tell this only to you."
"Hmph. Aren't you asking too much of a business partner you just want to have sex with?"
"I'm asking because I want to have sex with you."
I shifted my posture slightly.
"That’s how men are. They give everything and act all high and mighty toward the woman they want to sleep with."
"And then after the sex, don't they just throw her away because they've already had their way with her?"
"Some men are like that, but I'm different."
I, Ruji Fermaton, am different.
"I'll get her pregnant and keep her with me for the rest of her life."
"Wow."
"So think about it carefully. A man like me isn't someone you can find easily."
"A man who insists on virgins while surrounding himself with all sorts of beauties to spend his life doing nothing but having sex... you're certainly not someone I see every day."
"I won't just be having sex. I'll be having sex too."
"As the President?"
"As the President."
Charlotte lowered her head for a moment.
"Phew. Fine. Talking to the Young Lord gives me a headache, but it’s actually quite fun because I learn something new every time."
Charlotte reached out toward me.
"But let's start as business partners for now, shall we? The Young Lord's current power is still meager. Too meager to handle the aftermath of devouring me."
"...I'm touched."
"Pardon?"
"Aren't you saying it’s hard to have sex because you're worried about the aftermath—worried about me and my forces?"
"Um, well, I guess so?"
Charlotte didn't deny it.
"Since you spoke with such confidence, I'm sure you're good at sex, right? At the very least, a Young Lord who treasures virginity so much wouldn't beat a woman or rupture her pussy with that massive cock, making his own words meaningless."
"Naturally."
"But the problem is what happens after we have sex. Whether you can handle the consequences. That’s what I’m worried about."
"It’s just sex once. Is having sex with a Fermaton that much of a problem?"
"To be precise, having sex with me, a 'Weissgarten,' is the problem."
Charlotte stood up and pointed to her Gothic Lolita skirt.
"Go ahead, lift it up."
"...What?"
"My skirt. Lift it up slowly from the bottom. If you have the confidence."
"Confidence?"
"Yes. Once you see what’s inside, there’s no turning back. Young Lord Ruji Fermaton and Nine-Tail Guild Leader Charlotte Weissgarten will be in the same boat."
I felt strangely nervous as Charlotte spoke with such gravity.
"Charlotte."
"Yes."
"Should I flip it up all at once, or raise it slowly?"
"Whichever way the Young Lord prefers."
"...Oh, really?"
I decided.
"Then I'd like you to lift the skirt yourself."
"...Hmph."
Charlotte gave me a mocking smirk, then placed a chair in front of me and stepped up onto it.
Rustle.
She bent her waist and gripped the hem of her skirt.
Then, straightening her upper body, she slowly revealed her legs clad in white stockings.
Knee-highs.
As someone who believes stockings should go all the way up the thigh, it was a bit disappointing, but on her thighs that were now being slowly revealed—
"......The Imperial Seal?"
"Yep."
Charlotte smiled, gesturing with her eyes toward the seal branded on her inner thigh.
"I am the Emperor's illegitimate daughter."
"......."
"If you take my virginity, it's war with the Empire."