I've Been Reincarnated as a Villainess' Older Brother

After school, Cain and his classmates were holding a study session in a section of the school cafeteria.

The cafeteria in the dormitory is not available after school because some students eat early, so if it is used for purposes other than meals, such as study groups, it would be in the way.

At the aristocratic school, networking is as important as studying, so the school cafeteria is open as a café after school hours. Since it is a school facility, it is also possible to use it without eating or drinking.

By the way, beverages are free of charge, but you must pay for desserts.

Cain is good at arithmetic, natural sciences, languages, and economics. Since he studied abroad, he has learned history, politics, law, and geography almost from the beginning.

Cain teaches the subjects he is good at to his classmates, and his classmates teach him the subjects that Cain is not so good at.

Of course, they also teach each other.

Today, Cain was asking his classmate a detailed question about history.

“Uhm. Is it true that there is an old law that upper nobility can have more than one wife?”

“Yes, it is. I heard that when my grandfather had only one wife.”

My classmate Aruarat nodded his head while biting into a dried sweet potato.

Aruarat was a member of the territorial group during the flower festival, so he brought back dried potatoes, a specialty of his territory, as a souvenir.

“The grandfather of Aru’s family had a great big love affair.”

“Exactly. Master Cain, have you ever seen a book called “Count Divan’s First Love” at a bookstore?”

After hearing Aruarat’s story, Dindirana and Gelatoni leaned forward and joined in the conversation.

Cain, too, had indeed seen a book titled “Count Divan’s First Love” in a bookstore. Or rather, wherever he went, it was deployed in a flat stack.

“Could it be that “Count Divan’s First Love” is about Aruarat’s ancestors?”

“Exactly. Although the name and the title have been changed. But the plot, in which the couple overcomes the differences in status and various other obstacles and ends up falling in love, is based almost exactly on what really happened.”

The first edition of the book was “The Marquis of Divan’s First Love,” but the title was changed to “The Count of Divan’s First Love” after it was decided by law that a marquis could marry up to his third wife, Aruarat explained.

“So the marquises and older became polygamous after Grandpa’s marriage.”

“It’s not that old, is it? Isn’t it like 200 or 300 years?”

“Cain?”

“You mean there was something going on at the time that made them  change the law?”

“Ah. Come to think of it, yes.”

Cain looked at the second-grade history textbook all the way through, then picked up the third-grade textbook and flipped through it again.

Beside him, Dindirana opened his bag and peeked inside.

“It might be a good idea to check when the law was adopted first, Cain.” Read the most updated version of this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at Novel Multiverse – “NovelMultiverse dot com”

With that, he put the entire law book and the law textbook on the desk.

“Thank you.”

“Mr.? Is that Blake’s language?”

“It’s an old language from a faraway land that means “thank you.”

I flipped through Dindirana’s law book, and when I came to the section on marriage laws, I stopped flipping through the book and started reading the sections from the top to the bottom.

There were so many laws on marriage alone that it was difficult to find the one I was looking for.

“In the first place, didn’t polygamy increase the number of family disturbances?”

While listening to Aruarat and Geratoni continue to talk about this, Cain flipped through his history textbook.

The actual time period of 200 to 300 years ago is so rough that it’s difficult to determine where in the history textbook it falls. It was difficult to find the place in the textbooks, but it was not three hundred years ago. It would be like asking how long Aruarat’s grandfather had lived.

While flipping through the entire law book, Cain casually mumbled something and Gelatoni nodded. A thought occurred to Gelatoni, and he called out to the two men sitting across from him.

“I don’t have anything to do with this. Aruarat and Dindirana planning to get three wives?”

Aruarat, who was about to put the third dried sweet potato in his mouth, swept his eyes diagonally upward as he twirled the stick of potato around with his fingertips, “Hmmm.”

“I’m thinking that I’ll be with my father, and the second and third wives will be in the house as his business associates.”

“You mean servants?”

“More like co-owners, I guess.”

The conversation was getting interesting, so Cain looked up from his full law book and joined the conversation.

“The second and third wives came to us from the viscount and baron families, and they are soo talented. Mother is at her mansion in the capital, but the second and third lady they have been working hard in the territory for a long time.”

“So, is that something that won’t be a problem?”

It has been about two months since school started. Cain was conversing with his classmates in a rather broken tone.

“I don’t know. They are not only happy with marriage and childbirth. It seems to be a longing for the aristocratic daughters who want to work. Marquises and dukes take second and subsequent wives with that kind of thinking.”

Dindirana also joined the conversation, picking up a piece of dried sweet potato spread on the table and biting into it.

“My father is a very loving man. He treats his second and third wives as his wives. It’s like they’re going to have a little brother or sister in the winter.”

“How many have you had in the Din family?”

“Five. Well, all three mothers are very kind and get along well with each other, so we are doing well, aren’t we?”

If the daughter has been brought up to be like that from the beginning, maybe it is like that even if he is a polygamist? Cain twisted his head.

If she was brought up in a family where three mothers were the norm, she might accept it as such when she became an adult.

“But, well, there are quite a few homes that are bogged down, aren’t there?”

“Ah. Right. I don’t have the confidence to handle it well either, and I think it would be better to get a wife as a work colleague. When I become a fourth grader, I’m thinking of trying to talk to a girl who’s taking a territory subject.”

Aruarat and Dindirana, the eldest son of the marquise, were excited about what to do with their second and subsequent wives.

Gelatoni, who was not involved in polygamy in the count’s family, seemed to be listening to the conversation as an interesting story from a world he did not know.

Polygamy is a very diverse phenomenon. Cain nibbled on a piece of dried sweet potato, impressed that some aristocrats use polygamy as a means of employment.