I had already known that I was the reason. That being said, it wasn’t something I should apologize for…
That being said, if Ms. Anne was going to insist that she wasn’t afraid of Leo, then calling her might be a good idea… It would be best for her to get used to being around Leo.
Mr. Ekenhart had been afraid at first… It made me all the more impressed that Ms. Claire and Ms. Lyra had been fine from the beginning… Of course, Ms. Claire had been attacked by orcs when we helped her.
“Well, you can play with Leo later… But I don’t think that staying in your room all day will solve anything.”
“…And why is that? It has always been my way to be alone and think. Everything I suggested to my father came from me thinking alone.”
“Hmm… So that’s why you thought of such things… It makes sense.”
“What? What do you mean?”
“Nothing… Even if you are smart…it’s probably because you were alone and shut up that you thought of such things…”
Using magic tools to infect wine and spread diseases.
At the same time, buy all of the herbs in advance so you have a monopoly on the market. Raise profits by diluting the product… If she thought of all of this by herself, then she probably wasn’t stupid.
But being alone all of the time meant you weren’t connected to other people.
You would stop thinking about how people will be affected, and only care about profit.
Besides, in this world, they did not have tools to talk with people who were outside, or ways to gather information like you could with the internet.
Even if she had servants to take care of her, she was still ultimately alone.
Obviously, it wouldn’t be the case with everyone, but that is what I felt when I looked at Ms. Anne.
“You are saying it is wrong to stay in your room? But don’t you know that it is a good way to avoid taking in unnecessary information and helps you focus?”
“That’s true, but… I think you should interact with more people as well. Or you will just come up with terrible ideas again. Only this time, it will be you that Mr. Ekenharts crushes, not your father.”
“…Interact with people… That does not seem very important to me.”
“Yes, I suppose it wouldn’t…”
While I sounded self-righteous now, it also sounded a little familiar to me.
I never made suggestions like Ms. Anne did, but there had been a time when I only thought about work and had few connections with other people. That’s how feel now, after coming to this world and interacting with Ms. Claire and the others.
Through having connections with friends, lovers, parents, siblings, you are able to care about other people… That’s what I thought.
But if you are always alone and never involved with others, and just think about yourself, then instead of caring about others, you might come up with ideas to hurt people.
When I thought back on what Ms. Anne had said before, while she did have contact with her father, she tended to talk about him as if they weren’t related…
I don’t know if I would go as far as to say she didn’t consider him to be her father, but she clearly looked down on him.
“As long as you are reliable and have authority, people will obey you.”
“Hmm. Perhaps that is one way to look at it, but if you stay like that… I guess you’ll just have to get used to being rejected then?”