Thanks! Well, spica's updated in the meantime too but no rush
I imagine that 's' rank guy goes under a diff name if not a hidden route/diff look when he's out in public as a "Top adventurer"/hero versus looking like a 'bum' when he claims to be d rank or so
Those maids sure did gossip a lot in town for a random adventurer to know all that.
Well he did have a reputation beforehand so i imagine the maids were blowing off steam/venting about him (tho i imagine publicly trash talking a noble, even if he's still someone's son would prolly have backlash) and then suddenly talking about a change i imagine some ppl would be suspicious
At least Enrique doesn't think he's being 'mind controled' or some kinda replacement (which is kinda true)
It would be realistic, wish fulfillment or not.
Or would you deliberately do things you dislike, or even stay away from women, including your own maid because you believe the story could lead to a bad end, even if it is absolutely unrealistic?
Seems awfully illogical, the story changed the moment he stopped acting like that useless fat pig, going out of his way to stay away from all women and hiding his actual abilities to stay a mob as a dukes son is just nonesense.
It may be even more harmful to himself, since the children of dukes can't be mobs.
All he has to do is just not confront the "main chara" if they do show up as a protag or so (50/50 on them also being a reincarnator and surprised that "Scumulos" isn't , well, Scum lol) if not train enough to go to the academy or do some secret training/making some magical copy of himself if not "I got special permission to hand pick a team to go exploring dungeons with" or something like that to specifically avoid places where that adventurer would be in unless the maids also have "eminence in shadows" level of misunderstandings and thinking that MC wants to get involved with the main chara unless he commands them "don't make any unnecessary decisions without my permission" or or so
(tho, with him being 'better'/improved unless he had some brother/cousin all along that sparked a rivalry or jealous/tries to kill him, i can imagine his parents giving him a fiance and 'sex before marriage' talk aside i guess that's someone he can relief his urges with if he doesn't have some kinda spell or so to suppress himself as opposed to some 'system'/magical force that'd make him act scummy if he ever came across the NPCs in the game)