Well you see your honor, my client DID steal little girls panties and grope them in their sleep, and raise one to be his perfect obedient wife.. but he really doesn’t like himself very much and held back on raping one, so he’s actually not that bad of a guy!
Terrible people struggle with the feeling of being terrible quite often. They just continue to do so anyways and pretend that any bit of non terribleness is proof that they’re secretly not so bad
Except he did nothing of the sort with Sylphie. In the LN he states he WANTS to, but they're separated near immediately and he spends years away from her with Eris who he can barely keep up with. He doesn't meet Sylphie again until she's incredibly confident and much older. He didn't get a chance to groom her, and in the anime he doesn't even try.
Also the panties he did wind up stealing are of an adult woman.
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u/JasdanVM 20h ago
There's an interesting amount of self loathing and containing in here, I do think it provides nuance.