There were a lot of applicants
“As you know, Mr. Takumi, there are a lot of unemployed people in Ractos…such as in the slums. So the more people we employ from there, the smaller the slums will beco.”
“Because they will be able to get out with a stable inco.”
“Of course, we cannot hire too many of them. Especially when many have unknown backgrounds.”
“But Sebastian, does this an that…?”
“It is what you are thinking, Lady Claire. There were more applicants from the slums than expected. I was talking to the person managing the gathering of materials earlier. He also said there were many applicants.”
“So that is what you were talking about.”
“Yes. While it is all simple work…it is also quite physically demanding. Though, many people from the slums cannot read or write, so they are more suited for this work.”
As Nick had told before, not being able to read or write had a great effect on who would hire you.
That was why people like him found it harder to get out of the slums. And such people sotis ended up committing cris.
“Previously, when hiring people for such work, they would not get so many applicants. So it happened rather suddenly.”
“Suddenly… Why is that?”
“Well, nothing of this scale has been done before. As far as I know, anyway. So I suppose it is not exactly comparable.”
“So…could it also be because of Mr. Takumi and Leo?”
“?”
“Wuff?”
“They are the ones who captured Dean.”
Worriedly, I looked over to see if Liza was alright. But apparently, she was not even listening. She seed to be enjoying looking at the people and the stores.
That was good… I did not want her to be reminded of what had happened.
“He was practically the ruler there. So perhaps that now that he is gone, people are able to act more freely.”
“…That is possible. He would have stopped a lot of people who wanted to leave. They were threatened and had their movents restricted.”
The people had all lived in fear when he was around. So it made sense that more people would not want to leave and get honest work.
“I see… So maybe it was because of and Leo.”
“Rumors of you two have spread throughout Ractos. And not all of them are the truth…”
I had heard about that. How rumors of the capture of Deam had spread.
So of them were quite far-fetched. People were even saying that Leo and I would jump out during the night and arrest anyone who tried to do anything bad. And other stories painted us as villains.
It had been quite alarming when I first heard them, but I was used to it now. Besides, it wasn’t like there was anything that I could do about it.
Once rumors spread, you could not erase them.
At least people were less scared when I went out with Leo, even if she stuck out so much. But on the other hand, they would also look at us with so kind of hope or expectation as well.
I didn’t know what they wanted us to do, but we probably couldn’t even do it…
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