I don't think they're getting lured, they're more like staring out of repulsion? Like remember how the Samurai/knight gal wore the armor that hides her rack? Now she no longer does that. It's kind of like how kids point and stare at something that looks unusual, except this time there's no one...
Man why couldn't they be good guys. The Research session was PEAK. THAT'S how I always assumed researchers are rather than the clean proper prim college studies.
God this is gonna be really tough to recommend to people.
They're definitely gonna make everyone a terrible person to justify MC being a rapist.
Either that or this is gonna be a super short series because I doubt any publisher is gonna tolerate this for long.
I really like the resurgence of "villain" noble stories in which the MC maintains being the villain/antagonist and doesn't get all buddy buddy with the hero's.