Chapter 4-38 : Building A Good Connection With A Neighbor (part 1)
「Umm… Actually, there’s… something I want to ask…」(Mylia)
「Lady Mylia, you can ask me anything.」(Baron Hansen)
「Is that true that you have forty wives…?」(Mylia)
Mylia asked Baron Hansen something she was curious about with an awkward face.
「Yes. Forty-four, to be exact, and I love every single one of them.」(Baron Hansen)
「I see… It must be difficult to take care of them all.」(Mylia)
「It is, but I enjoy every moment of it.」(Baron Hansen)
「Good for you.」(Mylia)
After saying that, Mylia averted her gaze and whispered to herself.
「What a weird person…」(Mylia)
「Pff…!」(Drakia)
「「Wha…!?」」(first & second son)
However, she didn’t notice that everyone could hear her.
Drakia almost laughed at Mylia’s frank words while the first and the second sons glared at Mylia. They didn’t seem to like it when their father was insulted.
「M, Mylia…」(Chloe)
Meanwhile, Chloe looked troubled to see her little sister calling Baron Hansen a weird person.
However, Baron Hansen himself didn’t seem to mind it.
「Woops. I’m sorry.」(Mylia)
「It’s alright. I can understand why you think I’m weird to have so many wives. However, I believe it’s my destiny to have them as my wives. I promised myself to make them happy.」(Baron Hansen)
「By the way, are there any criteria for choosing your wives?」(Mylia)
「Hmm. They have to be beautiful, talented, and have good nature. I don’t care about their family backgrounds.」(Baron Hansen)
「I see…」(Mylia)
「People think that I’m a perverted man who only cares about women’s bodies. Well, I don’t deny that I’m quite lustful, but I didn’t marry women just because of their beautiful bodies, but also their talents. I share my work with my talented wives to develop my territory. They also help me with my business. That’s why my business has grown very well.」(Baron Hansen)
After he explained that to Mylia, Baron Hansen glanced at Chloe and sighed a bit depressedly as if he just lost thousands of gold coins.
He seemed to be still disappointed that he missed the chance to marry someone as talented and as beautiful as Chloe.
「Honestly, I’ve never seen a woman as perfect as Lady Chloe. It’s really a shame that I can’t marry her…」(Baron Hansen)
Listening to their father’s words, the first and the second sons lowered their heads.
（It’s not that I don’t understand their feelings at all. Chloe onee-chan is the top student in the commerce department of the Royal Academy. She is a talented and beautiful woman. She must be the perfect wife candidate for them. However, I’m glad that they gave up on her.）
「I see, so you want my knowledge as well. But, once again, I’m sorry, I don’t want to marry anyone for now.」(Chloe)
「I know. I’m just saying.」(Baron Hansen)
「Ahem. Anyway, let’s discuss our relationship from now on, shall we?」(Chloe)
「You’re right. Lady Mylia, I promised to support you in developing your territory if I lose. So, what can I do for you?」(Baron Hansen)
When Baron Hansen asked that, Mylia and Chloe looked at each other.
「Onee-chan, can I leave it to you?」(Mylia)
「Of course!」(Chloe)
Chloe was good at negotiating, so Mylia decided to leave the rest to her.
「First of all, since we are neighbors, why don’t we build a good relationship by supporting each other?」(Chloe)
「Ho? Will it be a profitable relationship?」(Baron Hansen)
「Of course. However, since the Atwood Territory is still growing, I want you to help us develop our territory first.」(Chloe)
「Alright. What do you need?」(Baron Hansen)
「Let’s see…」(Chloe)
Chloe folded her arms and thought for a moment.
「For now, I want you to sell us food and wool products with a fifty percent discount every month, and you have to prioritize us over the other territories.」(Chloe)
Chloe thought that people would need food. Since the number of workers kept increasing, the monster meat from Mylia wasn’t enough to feed all of them.
She also thought that she would need wool products since she planned to mass-produce clothes under Mylia’s brand, Dragolya, in the future.
「I see… Alright, I can do that. I will prepare the goods and the transportation as soon as possible.」(Baron Hansen)
「Ah, you don’t need to prepare the transportation, we will use our griffons to take the goods ourselves.」(Chloe)
「Griffons?」(Baron Hansen)
「Our griffons have magic bags to transport a lot of items. They will be our main transportation method in the Atwood Territory.」(Chloe)
「Magic bags? Hold on… They’re able to use magic bags? I thought only magicians could do that.」(Baron Hansen)
「Griffons are magical beasts, so they can use magic. They also have intelligence, so I thought that we might be able to train them to use magic bags. It wasn’t easy at first, but they learn little by little.」(Chloe)
「That’s interesting…」(Baron Hansen)
Listening to Chloe’s explanation, Baron Hansen glanced at Hypnus with an impressed face.
「Talking about griffons…」(Baron Hansen)
Suddenly, Baron Hansen turned his gaze to Mylia.
「My soldiers witnessed so many griffons flying toward your territory while carrying beautiful people a while ago. Lady Mylia, do you know something about that?」(Baron Hansen)
「ー!!」(Mylia)
Listening to what Baron Hansen said, Mylia couldn’t help but change her expression.
「Judging from your face, you know something, don’t you? Do you know who those people are?」(Baron Hansen)
「That’s…」(Mylia)
「You might have probably known about this, but there was a village in my territory where most of its villagers were beautiful men and women.」(Baron Hansen)
The people from Griffon Village once lived in Baron Hansen’s territory.
Because they had many beautiful women, Baron Hansen tried to get them forcibly by raising the tax.
He told the villagers to hand the women to him or else he would continue to raise the tax.
The villagers refused to do what he said. They fled into the forest and lived in hiding with griffons.
「I’m guessing that the beautiful people who were carried by those griffons were the people from that village.」(Baron Hansen)
「………」(Mylia)
Mylia tried her best not to react, but she couldn’t help but avert her gaze, making Baron Hansen’s suspicions toward her even stronger.
「Lady Mylia… You do know something about them… ーNo… You’re hiding them, aren’t you…?」(Baron Hansen)
Without answering Baron Hansen, Mylia turned her face to him and glared at him.
「You know that I’ve been looking for them for years, don’t you, Lady Mylia?」(Baron Hansen)
「……..」(Mylia)
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I am suddenly getting mixed feeling from this dude… He is on the border between being as bad as Mylia’s garbage family members, and actually being somewhat better but still garbage.
In the latter case, all I can say is: Mylia’s family is somehow worse than garbage by comparison (of course, aside from the nice ones among the sisters.)
The author is REALLY throwing us a curveball with the current depiction of Baron Hansen.
What the…… don’t tell me that this Ugly Ba**ard hentai protag isn’t as much of a ba**ard as we thought?! WE’VE BEEN TRICKED, HOODWINKED, AND QUITE POSSIBLY BAMBOOZLED!!!😱
Well, he is still ugly bastard, isn’t he? The only thing that was revealed in that chapter is that he atleast smart. Even if he treats his wives relatively well, they are all still just “elite workers with [benefits]”. And we already know that most of them aren’t there by their own will – if anyone refusing him, he uses blackmail and [barely legal manipulations] to force them into that marriage. It was that way with griffon village, it was with chloe, it was with mylia. It’s his primary way of doing things.
So how is he suddenly “not as bad as we thought”? He literally making himself an army of worker sex slaves, and his only positive trait is that “apparently he doesn’t treat them like an actual slave, but somewhat better”. What a hero, am i right?!
Really not a fan of this redemption arc