Survival Strategies of a Corrupt Aristocrat: Volume 2 Part 1 by Wanta

Author:Wanta
Language: eng
Format: epub

That night, I was sitting atop my bed, reading my game notes. Gwynt, the scout ally, was being held prisoner by a group of thieves who had taken residence in a part of the sewers. Unlike Adele, he wasn’t facing imminent death, but I couldn’t be sure how long he would stay alive. Well, I was ahead of the game, so he should still be fine.

The thief group was made up of second and third sons of farmers who had fled from their homes because of the heavy taxes. They were small fry who made money by looting empty houses and coercing travelers. Basically, leaving them alone would threaten the peace of the town, but catching them didn’t earn me anything, which was why I hadn’t bothered to deal with them—until now, that is.

“The thing is: will I be able to make Gwynt my comrade?”

Even after saving him and earning his trust, you still needed to solve his problem to get him to join you. However, his problem was, well, the problem. In the game, it was decided at random between thirty different possibilities. The worst one took around a year to solve, so if it happened to be that one, I would need to find another solution.

“Master Jack,” called a voice, and I heard a knock at the door. I immediately recognized it as Lumié.

“Come in,” I said after hiding my notes under the covers of my bed.

“Excuse me.” She opened the door and entered. Her expression looked stiffer than usual.

“What do you want?”

“...I heard about the matter of your betrothal.”

Come to think of it, there was a route in the game where Lumié could become Jack’s concubine. Maybe she was wondering if I would take a concubine or not after marriage.

“Why now, when the domain is still full of problems?”

“Because Kevin is being a pain.”

The betrayal of my wife in my previous life made me really not want to marry again. Unfortunately, it was my duty as an aristocrat to produce an heir, and people would find it disagreeable if my partner wasn’t of noble status. With the possibility of Kevin betraying me in mind, I had no other choice but to go along with it.

“I see. Kevin has certainly been keen on quickly finding a wife for you as of late.”

He doesn’t have to put so much effort into it... As I wanted to stay single, Kevin’s efforts were quite annoying.

“It’s going to be a loveless political marriage anyway. Once we have a child, we’ll live separately.” I couldn’t discuss adoption publicly, so I made a show of pretending that I was willing to have a kid. Though in truth, I intended for us to live separately as soon as we got married. Heck, we wouldn’t even eat together. I didn’t expect anything from my future spouse, and I wasn’t going to change the way I lived just because I’d gotten a fiancée.

“You are quite thorough. Do you hate the idea of marriage that much?”

She was being rather persistent.

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