Chapter 7
The Protagonist of a Romance Fantasy is always a woman.
And the general structure is that a pure romance or a Reverse Harem unfolds around that woman.
Since it is a romance, after all, the Protagonist inevitably has to get entangled with the opposite sex around her.
This was like a formula that must be followed in a Romance Fantasy.
And the other women who appear in a Romance Fantasy are always either an Ally or a villain.
Anyway, when considering these rules.
“The novel I transmigrated into, <I”m Full Because They Give Me Too Much>, is a Reverse Harem.'
In <I’m Full Because They Give Me Too Much>, also known as 'Jupeobae', there would be numerous pushovers helping the Protagonist.
“Besides, the male leads all have different personalities, and there are things like keywords…”
Starting from the Northern Grand Duke and the Obsessive Yandere Male Lead, to the Holy Knight, the Magic Tower Lord, and so on. Aren’t there a lot of those?
Among them, the Second Prince is probably the Large Dog Archetype.
The type who just blindly likes the female lead no matter what she does, gives her everything, and genuinely wants to stay by her side while continuing to give her whatever he can.
“It might not be the case, but that”s how it was when I read up to chapter 50.'
In the first place, Jupeobae was a novel that unfolded centered around the Protagonist’s point of view.
So there were no instances where it detailed exactly how the Bellos Empire was helping the Maselin Kingdom.
It was just that when Mirne said, “Help me, Second Prince-aemon!”
The Second Prince would respond with something like, “Okay, I”ll protect you even if I have to sell off all our Empire’s assets, my lady.'
“So I wondered how he was always able to give so much, but it turns out all the bastards selling out the country were just sticking right by your side.”
The 'Jupeobae' I figured out is a Romance Fantasy with the Benz Girl Cliché.
A story where a modern person transmigrates into a novel and uses various perks to strongly develop the Minor Nation, the Maselin Kingdom.
And it was obvious that those perks probably included something like the “Second Prince”s unconditional favor'.
“Bastards selling out the country…! That’s unfair! In the first place, an investment shouldn’t be looked at with a short-term view, so it requires a long-term wait…! You agreed to it too, brother!”
I didn’t like how he kept bringing up private titles in a public setting until the very end.
But I felt like we’d be up all night if I tried to catch every single thing like that, so I decided to let it slide for now.
“Right, I did agree.”
What wouldn’t I have agreed to before I transmigrated?
The owner of my body was such a massive pushover that he might have even agreed if asked to just give the Empire away entirely.
“But why now…!”
“Because it’s eating away at the Empire, the situation has changed.”
The reason I was conversing with the Second Prince in this situation wasn’t to gain any sort of benefit through the conversation.
“His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I apologize, but it has been revealed that most of the Second Prince’s aides who proceeded with the Maselin Kingdom investment are currently in the Maselin Kingdom. Therefore, I believe the number we can summon right now will be small.”
“Why is that something for the Grand General to be sorry about? Pay it no mind. Then when will that small number of personnel arrive?”
Until the leeches breathing in the Empire arrived at the Round Table Conference Room.
I just needed someone to talk to because I was bored.
“Right this moment.”
Clack.
The door to the Round Table Conference Room opened.
And eight Nobles spilled into the Round Table Conference Room like packages in a logistics warehouse.
Rumble, crash.
“Ugh.”
“Even if you are Imperial Guard Knights, how can you treat the Nobles of the Empire like this!”
“We are the aides of His Highness the Second Prince! If the Second Prince finds out we are being treated like this, he will not stand for it!”
“Do you know how many Maselin Kingdom-related tasks we are currently processing?! Do you know how important we are, to treat us like luggage…!”
Even while tumbling out, the Nobles didn’t know how to bend their pride.
Well, even if the Imperial Guard Knights were Sword Masters who bloomed Aura, they must have calculated that they couldn’t easily be harmed since they held positions of status.
However, their expressions quickly changed.
Because when they raised their heads after tumbling out, they made eye contact with the Second Prince, who was sitting perfectly still.
“H-His Highness Prince Bedin…?”
“…”
A call demanding help.
The Second Prince substituted his answer by turning his gaze away.
The moment the lifeline they trusted snapped.
The expressions of the Nobles, who had been running their mouths diligently right up until they entered the Round Table Conference Room, completely died.
And what they saw when they turned their gazes was.
“Starting with exactly how the Nobles of the Bellos Empire are processing the Maselin Kingdom-related tasks… I am also curious to see just how important you people really are.”
Me, of course.
“I knew that a significant amount of our Empire”s resources had gone into the Maselin side, but.'
To think that such an atmosphere was so pervasively widespread that they would openly mention it like this.
In fact, I knew that I could pressure the Maselin Kingdom as much as I wanted through this.
But.
'That’s not the priority right now.'
There was an order to things.
Applying political pressure through the free support was a matter for later.
“T-That’s, w-we just meant it as a figure of speech, the truth is we aren’t t-truly important…”
“Grand General, sadly, it seems these Nobles are not Nobles of the Bellos Empire either.”
“You have seen correctly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. These are not Nobles of the Bellos Empire. They appear to be beasts of a ruined nation who will only give proper answers when strictly disciplined with punishment.”
“What do you think we should do?”
“His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I am a sword. Please swing me as you please.”
“I do not like that they are standing up with such unfair expressions. I think they need to be lowered.”
Slash.
“Kuaaaargh!”
“H-How could you, m-my legs! My leeeegs!”
“Do not scream so loudly in front of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. We will reattach them anyway, so why are you so afraid?”
“T-Torture…! Are you saying you’re going to t-torture us right now by repeating the process of attaching and cutting? Even though we are Nobles of the Empire…!”
“You are not Nobles. You are beasts.”
For now, internal cleaning is the priority.
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After the first cleaning operation that took place in the Round Table Conference Room ended.
“Hah, should I consider it a relief that I stopped things from going from the absolute worst to even worse, or not?”
Coming into my room and organizing the situation again, I came to truly understand the phrase “being dumbfounded”.
“To think that the investment in the Maselin Kingdom was being carried out in this manner.”
A single contract where it was unknown when we would ever receive compensation for the investment.
Trusting in just that one thing, the Empire had continuously funded the Maselin Kingdom like a neighborhood idiot.
And corruption had continuously occurred in the process of providing those funds.
The only fortunate thing was that the amount was no joke, so none of them had been able to properly digest it all.
“Should I be relieved by the mere fact that it can be recovered?”
Since I couldn’t even grasp how rotten the Empire was, I decided to be satisfied with just putting out the immediate fire for now.
In fact.
[ The Bellos Empire is trying to regain its former appearance. ]
[ Destiny changes. ]
[ The worldline shifts. ]
[ The Empire’s Probability of Destruction decreases by 3%. ]
[ Current Empire’s Probability of Destruction: 83% ]
[ Status Summary: The Empire has a significantly high probability of destruction within 5 years. ]
It achieved the impressive feat of lowering the probability of destruction by 3% as well.
However, the true achievement of this State Council was something else.
“The Second Prince can no longer personally share Official business with the Maselin Kingdom.”
A complete block on Official communication between the Second Prince and the Protagonist of Jupeobae.
From now on, if the Second Prince wanted to get involved with the Maselin Kingdom, he absolutely had to go through me.
If I had my way, I’d want to cut off their private communication entirely as well.
But I knew that was realistically impossible.
In the first place, as long as the Second Prince was a Character in a Romance Fantasy Novel.
He would inevitably continue to be connected to the Protagonist, Mirne, in some way or another.
Rather than finding and destroying that means every single time.
It was much easier to manage by keeping it within a controllable range and watching over it.
“But doesn”t the probability of destruction decrease with this?'
Personally, I thought the very fact that the Second Prince and the Protagonist Mirne were communicating was the Path to Ruin.
The moment I had that thought.
[ The personal Official communication between the Second Prince of the Bellos Empire and the Crown Princess of the Maselin Kingdom has been temporarily blocked. ]
[ Destiny changes. ]
[ The worldline shifts. ]
[ The Empire’s Probability of Destruction decreases by 10%. ]
[ Current Empire’s Probability of Destruction: 73% ]
[ Status Summary: The Empire has a significantly high probability of destruction within 5 years. ]
“Hah.”
A message immediately followed stating that the probability of destruction had decreased by 10%.
No, I didn’t even completely seal it off at the source, I only temporarily blocked it, and it drops by 10%?
“And telling them not to make Official contact is temporary? Then does that mean they”ll be connected again in the future?'
Then, bluntly speaking, does that mean the probability of destruction could decrease and then rise again?
As my worries deepened over the various possibilities that came to mind while looking at the messages.
[ Tremendous achievement! ]
[ You have lowered the probability of destruction at an incredibly fast rate shortly after transmigrating! ]
[ The “Villainess Ring” is provided as a reward. ]
“It gives rewards too?”
A ring dropped out of thin air and landed on my palm.
[Villainess Ring]
└ Allows you to fatefully meet a Villainess.
A simple explanation.
“But is meeting a Villainess a good thing?”
Since it’s a reward for a tremendous achievement, it must naturally be a positive reward for me.
I couldn’t quite understand what positive advantage meeting a Villainess would bring.
“I would only know if I had read a lot of Romance Fantasy normally.”
A Villainess or a Villainess Lady.
An essential position meant to torment the original Protagonist.
They were usually set up to like the male side, leading them to harass the Protagonist.
If there was a contract marriage, they were the position that liked the man from even before that contract marriage, and so on.
Honestly, this Villainess position was something you could meet if you just tried to.
So what was the reason for going out of the way to give a ring to allow me to meet one?
And not just meeting them, but meeting them 'fatefully'.
I couldn’t understand what on earth this fateful meeting meant.
“I can”t guess, I just can’t guess.'
Still, a good thing is a good thing.
Muttering that, I mentally checked the cleaning process that would follow.
“First, I”ve stopped the money from immediately leaking out.'
I had firmly stated in the Round Table Conference Room that all areas the Second Prince was involved in would be re-examined.
The Second Prince had also approved this, and because of it, it was safe to say there would be no more giving things away like a pushover for the time being.
“Did about 12 Noble seats suddenly become vacant?”
But in fact, it wasn’t Duke or Marquis seats that were empty; at most, they were at the Count level.
With the sheer size of the Empire, that number of vacant Noble seats wasn’t a big problem.
However.
“There will definitely be Nobles eyeing those empty seats.”
Even though the seats being empty didn’t necessarily mean they would be filled.
Naturally, there would be those coveting the vacant spots.
'I’ll need to cook this up deliciously as well.'
Mirne, who was the First Princess, the Crown Princess, and the Protagonist of the Maselin Kingdom.
Since her setting was a 21st Century Modern Person, she would probably try various things.
First, lowering the country’s illiteracy rate, and recruiting Commoner talents while maintaining the Noble system, and so on.
She would try to make the Kingdom wealthy and powerful through various attempts.
“But I can just do that too, right?”
If it’s something that has a good effect when a Kingdom does it, what would happen if an Empire did it?
“I heard they were building an Academy in the Kingdom that doesn”t discriminate based on nationality or background.'
But we were originally supposed to put money into that, and now we aren’t.
The construction time must have increased tremendously.
Since we hadn’t just recovered the money, but all the Human resources as well.
It would probably take an enormous amount of time to fill that void.
'There’s no need to apply diplomatic pressure right now. Just the Empire becoming wealthy and powerful again is an attack in itself.'
It was a structure where the more I avoided destruction, the more the Maselin Kingdom lost its power.
Anyway, to complete this setup, I needed to continue the cleaning.
“First, I’ve tied up one of the problem children to some extent… so it’ll be comfortable when cleaning for a while.”
With those thoughts, since too many things had happened today.
The moment I was about to lie down on the bed.
Knock, knock, knock.
“Brother! Brother! Open the door! Brother! It’s me!”
“…Hah.”
Another problem child I had forgotten about came to mind.
If it had just been the Second Prince, a psychopath crazy for love, the perception of being a pushover might not have stuck.
But what if there wasn’t just one?
“Come in.”
At the word to come in, the door swung wide open.
“Brother! Is it true? That brother Bedin isn’t giving everything to the Maselin Kingdom anymore?”
Swaying her dark pink hair.
A woman with orange eyes approached me with a happy smile.
If the Second Prince, Bedin Bellos, was a leaky bucket spilling outside.
“Yes, it’s true.”
“Then, then… doesn’t that mean there’s nothing to worry about now? Can’t we go on a trip?”
The First Princess, Erna Bellos, was a leaky bucket spilling inside.
A true scatterbrain with a pure brain, a ditzy beauty, a complete idiot.
Rather than a Villainess Lady, she was just an empty-headed lady.
“Come to think of it, I have to reform her too.”
Haa.
While a sigh naturally escaped me.
“Let’s talk after I sleep first. I’m exhausted.”
“Okay!”
I immediately sent the First Princess out of the room and flopped down on the bed.
The Second Prince was an empty-head crazy for love.
The First Princess was just an empty-head.
And the First Prince was just a pushover.
“The Emperor, this crazy bastard… aren”t his sperm too low-quality?'
If he popped out three of them, shouldn’t at least one be a winning ticket?
Why are you doing the hit-and-run behavior that a Romance Fantasy Female Lead does?
Still, the fortunate thing was that for all of this.
“I have a rough idea of what to do.”
A plan to turn it into a profit was somewhat formed in my head.