My Little Sister Stole My Fiancé: The Strongest Dragon Favors Me and Plans to Take Over the Kingdom? - Vol. 1 Ch. 4

[BrambleBee]

Thank you!

 

[shanoc5902]

@Doomer I see that someone pointed out that there's a few things the villagers could do, but something to also point out is that they probably weren't thinking clearly. Keep in mind that they were in such a situation that even if they sold the food at a much higher than usual price (bargaining would be common in places like this, and Greed having little concept or need for money would probably meet their demands) the money would have done them no good as they needed the food to get by, thus why they wanted the horse so that they could instead replenish their food supplies, so they're not doing too well, and all of a sudden they find out there's probably enough gold to probably rebuild the entire city and then some, I imagine their critical thinking skills kinda stopped there.

 

[stal2walk]

jill best wingman
also she's brave enough to troll with our king i just love it about her lmao

 

[sjmcc13]

@shanoc5902 :

Keep in mind that they were in such a situation that even if they sold the food at a much higher than usual price (bargaining would be common in places like this, and Greed having little concept or need for money would probably meet their demands) the money would have done them no good as they needed the food to get by

That depends on how far the closest town/city is.
The horses would help produce new goods, but that would take months.
They could likely get some replacements for 2 peoples worth of supplies (likely only 1-2 days worth of food when spread out between the villagers) in 1 trip to the nearest city, and if they drive up the price end up better off for the rest of the year.

If there is a peddler coming by soon they might even be able to get replacements that way long before running out of supplies, simply waiting for his next trip.

If they are desperate for resources, trying for enough money to send someone to the nearest city and return with a cart of replacement goods and new horse is better then a horse alone. Heck they could probably fit enough goods on a single beast of burden and have someone walk to town, buy a new beast and supplies and walk back. Going for the horses means they have the leeway to wait for their next harvest, since the horse is not immediate production but increased for the rest of its lifespan.

Really, attacking without verifying a few specific things (like who knows about their trip and route, plus is there any appointments they are expected to meet, etc) first is stupid since as soon as they start spending the money (and someone will spend to much) they have to explain where it came from. If there is a missing persons notice from some noble gong missing while traveling close by someone will ask questions, and interrogate (torture) them into confessing.

The village is poor, but does not look to be so poor that they could not recover, or be desperate enough to need to do this.

 

[jimkage]

The bastards had it coming, I'm pretty sure he would have given all the treasure had they asked him nicely.

 

[shanoc5902]

@sjmcc13 I mean I was going by what they themselves said, they were unwilling to trade food for money originally because they value how the horse could help them directly with what they're directly doing but using the money wouldn't have helped them in time. Making assumptions and guess work about how even at inflated prices the money may have been more valuable than the horse is meaningless because they point blank refused to sell the food for money (which in their minds would have been a reasonable amount for the food) but would for the horse, to assert their assessment as wrong in of itself declares them either too stupid, too ignorant, or too irrational to make the best decisions for their circumstances which at that point trying to argue about what they should have done is silly as you've admitted they're too stupid, ignorant, or irrational to make good decisions.

Please also keep in mind that they had already discussed in the chapter that by carriage the capital would have been a few days, during which they'd be walking with a lot of money, they'd be down labor, and they're not exactly well equipped to fight given that they tried to rob them using farming tools, meaning you'd be sending probably some of your best people out with a lot of money and no real equipment for a several day long journey (one that'd be slower than a carriage, and they obviously don't believe a peddler or carriage will be arriving anytime soon otherwise they would have at least entertained the idea of selling the food for money) and unable to defend themselves if bandits jumped them. Given that from the sights we see that they're actively in the process of plowing (they don't even have all the fields plowed) we can tell that it's probably pretty early spring, note that the food they gave was wheat as well suggesting that they're still getting by on their stored food meant to last them through the winter, meaning that any regular transports wouldn't be expected for probably a month when the harvests start coming in.

Keep in mind, that when they were robbing them they still wanted the horse meaning that they weren't suspecting to use all the money they were getting to replace the labor they needed to finish plowing the fields and planting (to get the first harvest in sooner to make up for the food they sold), but we've still got a very clear picture of a village that's basically living harvest to harvest which means that one bad harvest and people die, and they suddenly find out that these two people who have no real guards have enough money on them to make that never be an issue again? These aren't college graduates, when they came to the decision to rob them they may have very well been thinking of the family they lost to illness or hunger during periods where they didn't have enough money to get by, and given that it was already established the amount of money in the caravan was the amount a noble would carry to buy a mansion, it's reasonable to suspect that they never imagined these two would have been out in the middle of nowhere with such wealth until they actually saw it.

 

[1Penny4YourThoughts]

Ah the human greed... Really they didn't think it through...

 

[traveling_chef]

the village people are stupid and clearly not thinking straight after seeing all that gold and those horses got fucking SWOL!

 

[ravidya]

@shanoc5902 Another point you may have missed- They were also robbing who they thought was a Priestess. So they were not only willing to risk their lives for the horse and gold, but also Divine Retribution if this was a Priest of a god. Whether gods exist in this world or not, they don't know. They're peasants. So they also risked angering a god at the very least.

Unfortunately, that's pretty much what happened. They angered a walking god effectively for horses and gold and got punished for it.

In fact, almost ironic they got killed by the 7 deadly sin dragon of Greed for their Greed.

 

[Psychronia]

Man. Eliana is such an adorable airhead. I guess this is just her natural disposition, which was suppressed due to the hard work she put out up until now?
For the first time ever, someone is spoiling her, and she doesn't know how to react. A little sad, but mostly wholesome.

As for the villagers...I don't know why people are making such a fuss about it. Humanity is selfish, though they flipped the stupid switch pretty quickly. You'll find people who give in to desire anywhere, but I'd also like to believe that you can find people who won't anywhere as well.

Also-and this isn't in any way to excuse what the villagers did-our dragon boy was kinda asking for it when he brought along such an obscene amount of wealth. Eliana knew it too, but he just didn't have enough common sense to know what the proper scale would be. It's quite fitting for someone called "Greed".

 

[yuusiren]

Why the villagers gotta be like this... why they gotta be like this...

 

[Carjiga]

@Psychronia Its not that he doesnt have common sense. He is a DRAGON. So far without understanding how dragons work in this world we can probably relate them to close to Godhood. I doubt when she mentioned the gold and robbers he cared. As that horse is probably made from .000000001 of his power or less and he is literally a being that has posion scales of death and can murder them effortlessly.

Probably was like "hm, Wonder what she means by that, Literally nothing besides the other 6 dragons can do anything to me. Humans are just annoying fodder that constantly bug me so I went to relax in a volcano to get away"

 

[blablablah]

I don't know what I expected, but it sure as shit wasn't a manhorse of the apocalypse.

 

[firosahoge]

@yuusiren if u saw two little brats carrying around 10 million dollars on their bicycle to your remote poor village, you might be tempted to steal too. The answer to why? Human greed.

 

[Robbini]

@yuusiren

Currently, the two visitors haven't actually introduced themselves or mentioned they have some backing or that people know of their visit there.
Basically, as long as they keep it secret and noone comes looking, they can easily steal the money.
How the villagers would explain having that much money if they go spending is another matter, and that might lead to the villagers getting robbed.
If there's one 'positive thing' it's that they 'only threatened' with weapons, they didn't actually start using the weapons in the brief amount of time before Greed reacted.

 

[LadyGraphycal]

i can just imagine their freaked out faces days later when the horse indeed doesn't require substance etc; that is, if they're still alive and the horse hasn't been poofed out of existence already

 

[zenyo]

"I'm sure this will be enough fo ^{(seems the "r" is missing here)} Eliana to leave me"

This dragon is so naive...

She will just probably do a dogeza and maybe even try to apologize with her life for him being bothered by the greedy villagers because she had the gall to have daily needs...

Or something like that.

Spoiler

 

[zenyo]

oops sorry wrong button while I was editing the previous post..
How can I erase this ?

 

[Kaarme]

@stal2walk She's basically a lesser clone of the original dryad. Considering she doesn't have a tree of her own, probably a much lesser clone directly sustained by the original. It's possible she doesn't have much in the way of personal identity and any deeper sense of self-preservation. You might say she's only a little different from the magical horses Greed created. Perhaps with time that could change, especially if she attachs herself to a decent tree. Although that would mean she wouldn't be going anywhere far anymore.

 

[TheFiller]

I only Hope we will see that they both go to the kingdom and see fmc family and prince and then will Mc punch prince hahaha