RISE OF EROS

Even though the baron was the biggest buyer of vitality drinks in Johan's shop, he also bought some rejuvenating creams for his wife and birth control pills for his concubines. Hence, he never suspected what Andrew and Johan were hinting at.

He replied naturally, "Again, Mr. Andrew, so much ceremony is not necessary, your products are just too good." After the short mutual boot-licking, Johan redirected the conversation to more important topics.

"So Mr. Andrew, to what do I owe your visit?" Andrew replied unceremoniously, "I'm actually working on a new product and I need some materials to experiment with."

When Johan and the baron heard Andrew's words, their eyes sparkled for different reasons. Due to the increase in his sexual activity thanks to the vitality drinks, the baron thought that the new product would be something related.

On the other hand, Johan expected it to be a product similar to rejuvenating cream, since beauty products were the ones that generated the most profit, after all, he is a merchant and is always looking for money.

Despite their excitement to find out what the new product was about, neither of them externalized that excitement excessively and soon Johan asked, "May I know what kind of product it is?"

Andrew did not hide it, after all, Johan was his sales channel and he also thought that if Johan dared to speak in front of Baron Castal, that meant that he was a trustworthy man to talk about business.

"The product is called tissue repair cream and it basically helps to repair the skin especially scars, even if it is used together with the rejuvenating cream it will have better effects."

Both Johan and the Baron were shocked and this time they couldn't hide it, to the point that the Baron asked anxiously, "Mr. Andrew, does your cream heal any wound?"

Andrew thought that the Baron had misunderstood his words so he explained, "It's not a healing cream. It will not be able to heal open or recent wounds, it is to eliminate scars or skin marks".

With Andrew's explanation, the Baron understood that it wasn't what he thought and he let out a disappointed sigh, but Johan was all smiles, because for him this cream was very valuable, because it was a beauty product.

Johan understood why the Baron was disappointed, because for men scars were like medals of honor, as long as they weren't too horrendous, so the cream Andrew wanted to make was worthless to him, however, scars for women were marks of despair, for they threatened her beauty.

What woman did not want to look beautiful? The value of beauty in this world for women was very high and so he knew that this new cream was another gold mine and he enthusiastically replied, "No problem Mr. Andrew, tell me what you need and I will prepare it for you".

Andrew had already written down what he needed on a sheet of paper and passed it to Johan. He took the sheet and went through it, not only to see if he had all the materials but to see if he could find a clue on how to make the cream.

Johan was a good merchant, but ultimately a merchant, so if he could make the product for himself, why would he need to buy it from someone else?

Unfortunately, Andrew had listed many quantities under the products he needed and had even added products that had nothing to do with the recipe, since without knowing the exact amounts it would be difficult to decipher the formula of the cream.

Since Andrew came into this world he has been very cautious and now that he had faced several battles he was even more so and although he trusted Johan to a certain extent, he did not let his guard down.

This world was much more ruthless than Earth, it was normal here for relatives to destroy each other for profit, so he wouldn't be so naive as to believe that Johan wouldn't take advantage if given the chance, so he had set up some countermeasures.

Seeing that he couldn't decipher anything, Johan spoke aloud again, "Simon" and in seconds the butler entered the office. Although he could not remain inside the office, the old man had not left and was waiting near the door for any instructions.

Johan handed him the sheet with the materials and said, "Help me find these materials for Mr. Andrew." Simon took the sheet and walked away, then Johan sat back down and drank some tea.

Andrew knew from the moment that Johan had told him that he had come at a good time, that he needed something from him and that it was probably related to Baron Castal, so he asked, "Mr. Johan, it seems that you also need my help with something".

Johan did not deny Andrew's statement, but he did not speak immediately, instead, he looked at Baron Castal and after seeing him nodded with his head, he explained what he needed, "You are correct, Mr. Andrew."

After a short pause to take another sip of tea, he spoke again, "More specifically the baron has a little problem that he needs your help with."

Andrew had already intuited that, but still he humbly said, "As long as it is in my capacity it will be an honor to help", then Johan began to explain the situation.

The Baron sat quietly drinking tea while Johan explained what was happening. This was normal among nobles, they somehow believed that if they didn't tell the problem themselves, it wasn't their problem, especially when it was something embarrassing.

Unexpectedly, the situation was very similar to the one Johan had the first time he approached him. It turns out that the Castal house, being one of the oldest baronies of the Cannaris empire, had made many contributions to the empire and they would soon be promoted to viscounts.

Because of this, offspring was very important and Baron Tiberius was already in his 50s, so having more offspring at this time was not appropriate. Fortunately, he had a 20-year-old son who could inherit the new rank, but even with him, there were very few branches in the family.

For this reason, Baron Tiberio wanted his son to marry and produce some seeds to provide more stability to the Castal house, however, his son, unlike the baron, was too shy with women.

In fact, Baron Tiberius was very happy with his son, as he was an intelligent young man and even good-looking, but his shyness towards the opposite sex gave him headaches and that is why he had asked Johan for help, since he knew that his son had the same problem and now had miraculously become a casanova.

In short, the baron wanted his son to gain the confidence to approach the opposite sex and the best way to do that was to make him a real man, which means, losing his virginity.

In this world, as on Earth, men were expected to be experienced in sex and women to be pure, so it was not surprising that single men, even the nobility, encouraged their children to be a bit debauched in what they did about sex, as long as they didn't make mistakes.

Mistakes refer to illnesses and pregnancies. Andrew found the situation curious since it was already the second time that a situation like this occurred. First Johan's son and now the baron's son, but when he thought about it, Fluffy spoke to him in his mind, "Master, this is not strange at all, in fact, it can be quite frequent, after all, there is no blessing of Eros in this world".

Fluffy's comment left him thoughtful and he couldn't help but reply, "But aren't there many service businesses of this type in the red light district?", to which Fluffy replied, "That's true, but most of the visitors are older people".

This last comment left Andrew pensive again. After a few minutes, he realized that what Fluffy said was true. Taking the customers of the Heavenly Palace as an example, the youngest was 30 years old, which was not necessarily young anymore.

Seeing that Andrew had understood, Fluffy began to explain. It turns out that in this world sexuality was something to be explored late, in fact, it was normal to be a virgin until the age of 25 and most men visited pleasure houses and similar establishments at much later ages because they had already experienced sex.

In a few words, the dynamics of this world were something like this, people normally got married around the age of 25 and at that moment they experienced sex with the sole purpose of generating offspring, and at that moment they experienced pleasure, so it was there when the door was opened for carnal pleasures.

All this was because there was no blessing from Eros in this world and therefore it was not abnormal for the noble and wealthy who were stricter in raising their children to have these shyness problems in men.

While Fluffy was explaining all this to Andrew, Johan had finished explaining the situation and both he and the baron kept silent when they saw Andrew pensive because they thought that he was looking for a way to give them an answer.

A few seconds later Andrew looked up and said to them, "Baron Castal, since you sought out Mr. Johan for help and he referred you to me, I figured you know my line of work, right?"

"I am aware of it," the baron replied curtly, then Andrew spoke again, "Then I will tell you this, I can give you the same help that I gave Mr. Johan's son, set the conditions, but keep in mind that my establishment is in repairs so I will only be able to help you two weeks from today."