Likewise thy are friends from Baron Baumeister’s days at the adventurer prep school.
Nowadays they settled as concubine candidates of Baron Baumeister.
Due to problems of pedigree, the spot of the legal wife was stolen by the granddaughter of Cardinal Hohenheim.
As for me, depending on their wishes, I want them to somehow receive the most affection.
As for the plan of forcing in other women in-between, there wasn’t any women at suitable age within my family.
Since there was the possibility of being disliked by Baron Baumeister, I put an end to it.
“So, do Ina-san and Luise-san have the same worries?” (Breithilde)
“Yes.” (Ina)
“It’s a terribly grave worry.” (Luise)
As Luise-san who usually has nothing but a carefree vibe around her calls it grave, it’s probably really serious.
Or rather, I ended up understanding what kind of worry it was right away.
“Is it such a heavy burden? The 2 billion cents.” (Breithilde)
The three end up all at once hanging their heads due to my question.
“Well, it certainly is too much, I guess.” (Breithilde)
“Even putting that aside, I consider it be something close to harassment.” (Luise)
Certainly, it’s as Luise has said.
Even for me such a thing like 2 billion cents would be the same.
No, even considering the amount of money possessed by the Margrave Breithilde household, it would be impossible to gather such amount without difficulties.
Of course, if you also included the total assets of the territory, it would be several times that.
“As adventurer it is an unforeseen event to obtain a large amount of money. It’s a dream, but that excessive amount of money…” (Ina)
Even the normally calm Ina appears to be shaken.
I see, for people, who became adventurers in order to raise a flag, they will gain the envy of the surroundings due to obtaining an unexpected large amount of money. (T/N: Ina and Luise are only adventuring in order to raise a love flag with Wendelin, is what he means here, I think. E: I think it means for fun events since they became (preparatory) adventurers before knowing Wend.)
Even for the adventurer’s guild there is no method to keep the accomplishments of the adventurers themselves absolutely secret.
As time passes, there is no way to prevent rumors to leak to the society.
When adventurers earn their first several ten thousand cents, it’s enough to treat their envious acquaintances to some booze.
If it’s several hundred thousand cents, they will show signs of being even more jealous, thinking about such things like themselves wanting to at least earn this much as well.
If it’s several million cents, they will be generally called 『Millionaires』 in society and there are many cases where it is regarded as minimum requirement of a rich person.
However, when it goes beyond even that.
Such things as ridiculous scam investment stories of increasing the money by several hundred thousand cents, requests for loans and extortions pop up.
Even friends and acquaintances strangely multiply in number for some reason, I suppose.
Also, if one is unlucky, there are also cases where they will be involved in crimes.
Everyone wants to obtain a large amount of money, but if you obtain it, the troublesome things will increase as well.
There are very few things where you can choose freely in this world.
“(2 billion cents were given to boys and girls, who didn’t have any relation to large amounts of money until now, without batting an eyelid. I see, it’s certainly close to a kind of harassment.)” (Breithilde)