Episode 6



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Maybe it's even the author's real intention, but if you consider the MC's actions from another point of view than just the usual isekai harem, you could see his actions as coldly building a toolbox of absolute loyalty by saving the unfortunate girls. By saving them from death or worse, giving them training and, above all, a purpose in life, by making them fall in love with him, making them share a heavy secret (like he noted himself earlier), he basically does everything possible, aside from some fancy mind altering magic, to have an expendable team that would be willing to sacrifice themselves for him.

When you consider his own aim, to kill the hero, it could be the best way to reach the goal by mainly relying on what he can do as a lone agent (with the team being an extention of his own power). The other way would be to gather a coalition against the hero, but if he's fighting against time, it could be a difficult (slow) way of achieving it. Of course he still could use such a cooperation effort, if an opportunity presents itself, but, in the end, he is an assassin, not a general or a politician.

I wonder why the criminals in this incident weren't simply assassinated since the kingdom has such an official system? Perhaps it was necessary to use them to crack a larger human trafficking syndicate. At least the director of the so called orphanage was used for that purpose. I suppose the nobleman as well will be interrogated (tortured) for every bit of information.