Chapter 6: Honey Trap

Chapter 6: Honey Trap

The guide was deep in thought.

While feeling nauseous from Liams gratitude, he seriously pondered what had happened to Liams deep seated grudges and hate.

-The reason being that Liams gratitude was worse than he expected.

It was at a strength that his body could no longer shrug off.

Hmm, now how can I make him suffer? The thing is, he only keeps old butlers and androids around himself. With this, I cant really deal any serious mental damage. If there was an actual human lady on the other hand, Id be able to stimulate his previous lifes trauma.

At first the guide thought he should meddle with Liams subordinates, but that was difficult now that Liam had already executed all the bureaucrats that were likely to be corrupted.

On the other hand, if he meddled too much, then things wouldnt be that interesting anymore.

As a guide, he only wanted to set the opportunities for things. After that, he would just sit back and watch as an individuals shallowness and incompetence ruined themselves.

It wasnt his preference to get his own hands dirty.

So this was quite bothersome.

Hes surprisingly serious. I thought that hed been aiming to surround himself with beautiful women while indulging in carnal pleasures.

Even though he said he was aiming to be an Evil Lord, all that he was doing was normal governance.

Did he forget his own purpose?

The guide watched Liam while having those thoughts.

Liam, who was finally alone in his office, began to squirm nervously.

Oh?

After looking into his thoughts, it seems that Liam truly did have the intention to become an Evil Lord.

He could hear the voice of Liams heart.

(The territory has been developed, and the people finally have some breathing room. Theres no point in squeezing them dry before theyre even ready to be squeezed. You cant squeeze out a dry rag after all.)

The guide was happy to hear this. I see, hes planning to raise his people up before dropping them down, like how Im doing to him. I dont hate this kind of development, its still something useable.

Liam was thinking about various things while grinning.

(Should I try to gather the beautiful girls together first? If taking into account the population of my territory, there should be at least one or two beauties.)

The guide felt excited by Liams enthusiasm to take the things he wanted by force.

This is fine, I can work with this. This is only a small setback. It doesnt matter if he does things through brute force or with bribes and money, as long as he still gets to the same ending. No, better yet why dont I prepare another adulterer to seduce his partner right after they confess their love? Im sure Liam will have some great emotions then.

As the guide wallowed in his delusions, Amagi entered into the office.

Liams focus immediately switched over to Amagis report.

The guide proceed to eavesdrop on their conversation.

were to receive some military personnel?

Yes, it looks like theyre going to send us some military officers whore close to retirement for reserve duty. Please contact me if you decide to go through with this, and Ill take care of the budgeting.

The guide started to rub his chin as he listened.

Hmm from the militarys point of view, do they just want to reduce unuseable human resources?

Apparently, the Empire seems to want some military personnel regulated to the frontier.

In response, the military took this chance to shove the useless people on reserve duty and other troublesome individuals onto the provincial nobles.

Liam made a frustrated expression.

In other words, theyre dumping their garbage onto us?

Though they are from the Empires main army, so many of them should be graduates from the military academy, making them both educated and trained. They should have some battle experience, so maybe we can assign them as instructors to train our private army?

Using said thought process, Liam reluctantly gave his permission.

Upon hearing that, the guides mouth distorted into a smile and he began to laugh.

Lets set up the foundation for the future. It should be interesting to gather serious soldiers who wont tolerate the rise of an evil lord.

Even if they dont revolt, it should be fine as long as they cause Liam trouble.

They were going to serve under Liam, a man who was planning to commit various atrocities as an despot afterall.

Surely the ethical soldiers would start a mutiny.

And once the people rise up, theyll band together and execute Liam as a tyrant.

With that said, lets have all the honourable soldiers gather here.

As the guide snapped his fingers, black smoke generated from his body before dispersing into the surroundings.

The guide then took off his hat before opening the door between dimensions.

Even when Im doing things like this, youre still sending feelings of gratitude to me. Makes me want to hurl. Ill be gone for a little while Liam, so make sure to put on a spectacular show for me the next time I come here.

He decided to leave a little earlier than planned because Liams gratitude was disgusting.

And so the guide left the world as it was.

I was about to reach my mid-forties.

It was around the time where youd normally start having a mid-life crisis.

But in this world, people of this age were just about to be recognised as adults.

I had continued to live a normal life.

I lived normally, worked normally, studied normally and trained normally.

The reason?

I was preparing for a disaster to strike.

Or rather, I felt that it was weird that I havent suffered at all in this life.

As I was just about to finish my days work, Amagi gave me a new report.

Master, [Nias Karin], the technology lieutenant of the seventh weapons factory is looking to meet with you. It seems like she wants to confirm Avids condition.

Nias?

The intelligent beauty technology lieutenant that had an amazing body.

Why so suddenly?

The inspection on Avid is probably an excuse. Their main goal seems to be the sale of weapons from their factory.

The Empire sure was a rough place.

It was just too large. It was impossible for them to micro-manage every little thing.

While its true that the factories were run by the Empire, it seems that nobles were still allowed to purchase weapons from them for their personal needs.

Normally, you wouldnt be able to buy such things, or at least theyd put restrictions.

But their conditions were too loose.

And so, it was relatively easy to purchase arsenals.

Can we even afford something like this given our financial situation? Theyre probably going to try to sell us a new battleship or something.

The reasons being- the taxes that shouldve been paid to the empire have been late until just recently.

I finally had enough leeway to pay them, but the empires response was cold.

Even if I did try to get a permit, its likely Id have to pay for all the taxes that have been missed, first.

In that case, why dont we go with this one? Its cooler than what we have now.

I pointed at an eight-hundred meter class, it was a bit small, but I thought itd be a good purchase.

Ill get you in touch with them right away.

While I was having that conversation in front of Nias, her voice rose up shrilly in response.

Please wait for one moment! Im really in trouble here!

I sighed.

Whyd you give up on design?

Its because performance is more important!

If the difference in specs isnt that different, then of course Id choose the one with the better design. The interiors are also pretty cheesy-looking, or rather they give off a malicious feeling.

Without cutting corners, theyre just plain bad.

Thats because maintenance will become more difficult!

Looking more and more desperate, Nias started to take off her coat jacket.

The underpants that I could see through her white shirt gave off the feeling of somebody that had been working hard for a long time.

Wasnt that a matching set?

Nias seemed to be emphasising her chest with her arms.

Looking at that, I remembered the extravagant increase of unfamiliar underwear that was kept in my wifes drawers.

As I dropped my shoulders, Nias looked like she was about to cry,

Why are you so disappointed?! Werent you ogling my chest the last time I came?!

Yeah, I did, but Im not really feeling it anymore.

Even though my wife constantly refused to spice up our night life, for some reason, she seemed to be getting an increasing amount of flashy and skimpy underwear.

those were the first signs that I started to think that she was having an affair.

Opening her white shirt to expose more cleavage, Nias even started to make poses in order to appeal to me.

The person in question was seriously embarrassed and completely flushed red.

Wow Nias, you must really want to make this sale.

She gave an awkward smile while clumsily doing something that just barely passed as a pose.

Something did come to mind after seeing a cool beauty force herself to do something that she absolutely wasnt used to.

it was that she looked, really, really, pitiful.

I understand, Ill buy it. You said you needed me to purchase two hundred ships?

If possible, Id appreciate it if you could buy three hundred!

The number from before had increased!

Wasnt she being a bit too shrewd?

She was like the universes most disappointing venus flytrap.

Can we afford it, Amagi?

Amagi immediately did the calculations and confirmed,

We can do it if we reduce the number of ships scheduled to be purchased. In the long run this isnt a waste, so it should be okay to invest in them.

When I turned back to look at Nias, she had already clasped her hands together in happiness.

I understand. Ill buy it, we can change the design ourselves anyway. We can just throw covers or whatever for the exterior, and while it might cost a bit more, the interiors can be renovated.

Now that she had regained her composure, Nias pushed up her glasses slightly with her fingertips to correct their position.

Theres no point in the design.

You really should at least do the bare minimum, or else youll never win an inspection.

Reminded of how they had continued to lose the inspections, Nias dropped her shoulder and started hugging her knees on top of the table she was now sitting on.

I can see your underwear again, so can you stop already? Stop sitting on my table.

Amagi had an exasperated look on her face,

It looks like shes the kind of person whos generally disappointing except when theyre working.

She was beautiful, but she was a pitiful kind of beauty.

In the end, I finished this bit of business and left the details to Amagi, eventually leaving the room more tired than I thought Id be.

Brian was walking down the mansion corridor.

There he could overhear someone engrossed in a conversation.

(Is that the visitor, Nias?)

He thought it was rude to eavesdrop, but he felt that Nias, who was making a secret call to someone was suspicious.

When he listened in,

How about it? I was able to get him to buy three hundred units.

Apparently, she was conversing with some youth from the seventh weapons factory.

But its also with a commission to alter the design, right? The top brass is going to be angry.

There wasnt any other choice, he wouldnt buy anything otherwise!

The younger voice sounded slightly appalled,

In any case, I cant believe a straight-laced worker like you was actually able to charm a deal like this out. Did you have something to blackmail him with?

Its nothing like that, hes completely obsessed with me. I was able to wear him down with my seduction skills today as well.

really?

M-maybe. Definitely. I saw it with my own eyes.

If thats the case, then you shouldve sold him more.

Im not that mean, there was no need to. Rather, why arent you being nicer to me? I just completed a business deal with my charms!

You only sold three hundred units, right? We were hoping for double that amount.

I did my best!

The atmosphere was subtle, but Brian was shocked,

(Lord Liam is stuck in a honey trap!)

Brian couldnt help but feel uneasy about Liam, who had just made a large purchase from a venus fly trap.