Chapter 43 - The Proposition

Eloise stood out the door taking deep breaths after another. "I can do this... I can.." she knocked on the door lightly.

"Who is it?" an annoyed voice came from inside.

"It's me Eloise, your highness."

The door was opened instantly and a half-naked young duke stood there with a flabbergasted expression. "w—what bring you here, miss Eloise?" he then noticed her eyes focused on his abs.

"I... I was going to talk to you about something, but it looks like you are preoccupied. I will take my leave." All throughout her speech her eyes only focused on his abs. 'how can one have such a beautiful body?. This is not fair. I want to touch it,'

She stood there unmoving.

"Miss Eloise?" Raymond watched her funny reaction with a smile hidden in the corner of his lips. "Is something the matter?"

"No! Nothing..." she turned to leave but suddenly she faced him once again. "I have a proposition for you,"

"okay then, come inside." Raymond opened the door wide.

Eloise walked in intently, looking at his upper body. 

'We won't have much of a talk if she keeps looking at me like that,' Raymond understood her position, so he swiftly wore his shirt. "What is it that you want to talk about?" he calmly approached her.

Eloise cleared her throat loudly. "Don't quit being the duke!"

"Pardon?"

"I said don't quit being the duke." She confidently looked into his eyes. "I need your power,"'

Suddenly Raymond got a déjà vu. Those eyes looked so similar to the young kings' eyes when he rescued him. 'So she does have a purpose to approach me.. What was I thinking? No one is as pure in this society. I was just deluding myself,'

But even so, his heart was swayed by her unflinching look.

"I'm asking you once again, how may I help you?" this time his voice came out cold and callous.

The young girl flinched. "My proposal is this," she handed him a piece of rolled up paper.

He carelessly opened it and placed it on his new table. There was just a picture of a chair kind of thin with a hole in the middle.

"What is this?"

"This is a revolutionary creation," Eloise stood up with an excited face. "I need your power to integrate it into society,"

Raymond's thoughts were a jumbled mess at this point. 'why would you want to make a weird chair famous? What is this girl thinking? This is totally bonkers,'

He cleared his throat and continued. "This is an innovative idea indeed, but I am not sure how this can be revolutionary in the society,"

"Of course it is revolutionary. With this, there won't be a need for camber pots," she said with a wide smirk.

Raymond's mind stopped working. "C—chamber pots?"

'Is she proposing that we use a chair instead of a pot? Oh my goddess, this is getting worse by the minute,'

He sighed loudly and leaned against the sofa. "Miss Eloise..."

Right then, the door opened with a bang and Fred walked in with a frown. "We have a problem... oh miss Eloise is also here good morning," he greeted her with a slight bow.

"Oh, Fred, you are here as well. Come quickly. Let me tell you about my new idea." She pulled him and sat him near the duke. "'this is the revolutionary product that I want to implement. It's called a toilet bowl. You poo in it and it directly flushed it out with fresh water keeping it clean and fresh smelling,"

Fred, who came in the middle of the conversation, was left disturbed the talk of poo. "'it's early in the morning and I've yet to have my breakfast.."

"so? Humans poo and pee, mister Fred. The sooner you get comfortable with the, word the better for our business meetings," Eloise looked undisturbed by that fact.

Fred flinched slightly with a grimace painted on his face.

"By using this toilet bowl, we can reduce diseases by half fold,"

This caught Fred's interest.

"How do you propose so?"

"See, most of the bacteria and virus only grow on dirty stuff. This toilet flushed everything down, leaving no stains or dirt.. And it's much more sanitary compared to the chamber pots, which have to be cleaned by hand."

She kind of grimaced at this instance.

Fred glanced at the drawing keenly the chair like structure had a curved tube connected to it. "What is this tube for?"

"It connects to the drainage system. That's where I need your power, duke. This piping system needs to be installed perfectly in the streets of your dukedom. Without your powers my ideas will fester and we might still be stuck with that dirty chamber pot." She dramatically whispered.

Raymond sat up. "That's all? You don't want to use my powers to do anything unlawful?"

"No.... why would I even think of doing anything unlawful." Eloise looked at him with her eyes narrowed.

Raymond cleared his throat loudly. "Your idea is approved,"

"yea~!!!!!" she squealed and ran out the door.

Fred looked at the wide-open door with a look of disbelief. "What about your plan of quitting?"

"I guess I changed my mind," Raymond happily hummed a tune as he glanced at the drawing. "She really is unhesitating when talking about morning excrement. Isn't that cute?"

Fred grimaced. "You both are of the same breed, I swear..."

Raymond picked up the white ribbon that had fallen off the young girl's hair and gently caressed it.

"No, she is human and I am a vampire... even though I won't be able to have her in my life, I wish to fulfill few of her wants before I leave."

"You have lost it Raymond,"