Ah yes. What a great master trapper he is. He immediately fell for the honeytrap, the most ancient and basic of human traps.
I'm starting to feel sorry for the demon princess. She ended up summoning the most incompetent person possible and she's basically stuck with him.
*Hits very woman he comes across within seconds of meeting them.
*Wonders why Beatrice is constantly on her guard around him.
Not even a genius could figure out such strange behavior.
So he can just spawn traps wherever he likes and whenever he likes? That just ruins the entire point/fun of traps in the first place. And he's ok with that? No wonder he was hated so much as a game dev. He's absolute garbage and probably setup the games to generate traps in the way of players no...
@marsbars His clan has been outside the palace for a while, so they have sufficient street cred to pretend to be populist. The people generally don't care so long as nothing bad happens to them so he can also just toss out some crumbs from time to time and look magnanimous.
Goddamn, this sounds like the sort of thing that should cause some sort of law reform if the society was more egalitarian.
The worst part is being genre savvy enough to know they will probably get together when the story would be (severely) enhanced by her winning. Winning in this case meaning...
It makes more sense when you realize that Britain literally defeated China by making 90%+ of the population addicted to cocaine and declaring war when China tried to make a drug free policy in response. China had a bit of a problem trying to fight back when the entire military was was either...
Anyone else immediately think that whole tirade at the start sounded suspiciously like he was advertising that he's totally not evil via paying off misc servants to start talking about how cool he is in front of our MC?
So uh.. did nobody ever think to just let them wear different clothes, maybe use some other misc sorts of disguises, and pass them off as siblings instead?
If a woman is literally kicking and screaming out NO to you, it's a safe bet that you don't have consent. That doesn't really fall into something you brush off as cultural unless you want to make the culture look bad.