now both of them can smell the same.A clan master gifting underwear on their first meeting is definitely a power move.
The first meeting in the webnovel was Viche walking into Haruka's chest, breathing deeply several times, then using Haruka's breasts as leverage to push her face out of them.A clan master gifting underwear on their first meeting is definitely a power move.
I think of it as them not really being that bad, that they don't do things like that normally just that Haruka kinda just went with the flow and the flow was flowing in a bad way. Anger and resentment can make people act really irrational and when things is just going one way it is simple to go with it without thinking about things in a calm and rational manner. I like to believe if they where actually serial rapists or something they would have gotten caught and sent to some mine for penal slavery or whatever it is rapists gets in that world as punishment. They weren't exactly subtle or looked like they had experience in doing that kind of thing.I'm still iffy on how quickly the thugs got redeemed (seriously, if you're going to make them "not bad guys", just write them a as a little less awful to start with), but it's really nice to see a cast with reasonable communications skills.
Also really looking forward to the new outfit. Less-dead-inside-old-man about to get his first taste of fashion.