Is the fat noble even a bad guy? Seems like the only bad thing he's done is take the rest of the contract money but the mc never asks for it so I don't know if that counts.
He certainly isn't that good of a person, seeing as he IS keeping it and even falsified reports about how problems were taken care of, but at the same time the MC is WELL aware the methods he uses are far from acceptable in a legal standpoint, so isn't too bothered and treats the rest of the money withheld as hush money. Likewise the kingdom itself also seems to be of the same boat that "fine, he might be lying about the details, but he clearly has a capable subordinate." to where they're going to let him off the hook for his lying b/c at least the results show it was taken care of.
guys please dont start whinning that its censored or something as the fist volume is not even out so its all the raws that are available and if at some point we get uncensored raws then we'll update it