Received the Obsession of a Chaste Dark Lord (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 42

I had invited Count Bardel, but he said he had matters in his territory. I’m disappointed, but he said he would visit next time.

“Really? If even Count Bardel can’t attend, it must be something serious.”

“Well, Your Highness. As you know, most eastern nobles rarely talk about their domain affairs. Many nobles from the east never even leave their lands, so we can’t possibly know everything.”

She shrugged as if implying that Marchioness Ferje didn’t know either.

True enough. Eastern nobles were famously insular.

For some reason, they also held strong bonds among themselves, constantly hiding their domain affairs from nobles of other regions…

Wait, why hadn’t I thought of this before?

The realization struck me.

Eastern nobles were inherently insular.

Partly because their domains were isolated from others, but also because they maintained a strange, unbreakable bond among themselves.

A peculiar bond—like a single family—where they protected and watched over each other.

So even if an epidemic broke out among them, they would stay silent.

After all, admitting an epidemic was bad enough, and if word spread across the empire, the east would be completely sealed off.

The east was already a barren region, nearly sealed off as it was; to fully lock it down would mean certain death for those trapped inside.

So they would have focused desperately on quietly gathering essential supplies.

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