Isaac

The soup and maggots that were filled with half-grown straight drums spilled into the filthy streets. These are embarrassing liquids and maggots, also called boiled food in a river that has been drawn and roughly boiled.

“Tsk! They're always grumpy. ”

The team member, who was unluckily assigned food, spits and mutters. The children and the elderly who crawled out of the alleyway carefully contained muddy haystacks in bowls that even spilled on the floor as food.

For those who are hungry more days than what they eat, these foods are also sensed. Their eyes were filled with awe at the sight of the crew and afraid of getting hit. The people who swept the food away with their busy hands disappeared into the back alley, noticing.

Isaac scratches his head and approaches the group that was distributing the food.

“Hey."

“Tsk! Why are you calling me? I did as I was told. ”

Isaac shows up, and the crew deliberately spills the barrel. As if to try it, Isaac was afraid of the people and picked up a rotten apple from the pile lying near him.

Isaac stares at the rotten apple covered in mud for a moment and asks. The organizer looks surprised that he didn't know he was going to eat it.

Isaac grunts a few times and calls out a nearby rat with his fingers.

“You summoned me.”

“It's not good.”

“To?”

“It's not good, asshole! ”

Puck!

Isaac picks up a wooden ladle from the pool and swings it at the rat.

“Grrrgh!"

The wood ladle shatters and the blood spills out of the rat's head.

“Whether you make food out of garbage or rice out of poop, I don't care. I'm just trying to eat my kids' meals when I want to eat them. But if it's good, it should be good! Am I crazy? Do I have to eat this nonsense as a delicacy? ”

Boom! Boom!

The group looks at Isaac, who blubbering his head like a rat-kicking ball, with a weary expression. Isaac, who stomped the rat so hard to breathe, gives a polite look.

“Hoo! I knew exercises were best when I was feeling droopy. Wake up.”

Isaac's words curl up, and Isaac looks back at the rest of the group. Despite Isaac's strength, the group flinches.

I said, "Oh, bring me a delicacy I want to eat and eat again. Or he dies here. ”

“I don't care if you die. ”

Twitching. Isaac's words protrude from the mouths of the group. It wasn't the same organization; it was just another organization's executive. It's not a particularly hostile relationship, but there's no reason to run around sweating on the soles of your feet to save the author.

Isaac stares at the group member with a blank expression, smiling at them and kicking the rat with his feet.

“He's smarter than he looks. You tried to take out an executive in the opposing organization with my own hands. He's a pretty smart guy. If you're gonna live today, watch out for him. He's gonna be big. ”

Isaac's words spill the rat's murderous life onto his crew. His nose is crushed and his face is covered with blood spilled from his head. It was a mixture of resentment and anger about why he should be like this.

“I'll get it right away! ”

The crew disappeared as if they were fleeing the life of a rat that might kill them right away.

Looking at the rats swallowing fury into their messy molluscs, they seemed to want to kill Isaac, even if their claws were shaking.

“Why? Are you angry? You want to kill me? ”

“…… No. ”

“I think that fist means something different. ”

Isaac says the rat clenches its fist, but it doesn't straighten out how tightly it was held.

Isaac patted the rat's cheek lightly with his palm.

“Don't be so angry. I don't know what the world does. You just have to endure a powerless one. It's the same thing you do to ordinary citizens. It's just that this time you're the helpless one. Isn't that right?”

“ ……. ”

Isaac sat on a wooden box stacked in triplicate, clasped his chin with one hand, and looked down at the Grand Canal. All the boats I've ever seen in the world were cruise ships and chutes. However, I felt sorry for the generation that remembered the world map in the game "The Age of the Sea" when I was a student when the medieval sailing ship actually passed by.

The workers walking back and forth from the docks glance at Isaac like that. Rumors of a new march in Newport City have been spreading for a long time.

“Hmmm, the hub of supply and transportation. It's not a lie to watch the ship keep going back and forth. ”

There are more than hundreds of ships going back and forth Lake Levernen and across the canal. It was also known as a tourist attraction, a spectacular landscape of Lake Levernen and the Minolen Mountains.

Spinning!

As I turned from my seat, I noticed the people who were being distributed food that was at least assorted. Rat oversees the distribution, releasing a force that only caught one of them and threw him out. Since other members of the organization are paying attention to Rat and distributing food to the poor.

“Well, that's not the reaction I was expecting. Don't you know these are simple facts? Or are you ignoring it while you know it? ”

Isaac, who survived in an obscure place between man and beast. I know how ugly and selfish hunger can make a human being.

Only the children are fed, as Isaac said. The weakest creatures at the bottom of the world. Of course, I knew there were those who wanted to take away the children's rations.

Though there was a commotion between the adults who wanted to take it and the children who didn't want to be taken away, they rush into the alleyways to get food, smiling happily and sharing what they have with each other, rather than quarrelling.

“It's the bottom that keeps order. ”

Why is the slum humbled and condemned? Dirty or poor?

No, people can be killed for pennies and are willing to sell for pennies, even if they get grace. Those who put their interests first. It's because they failed and fell to the bottom of the world.

Of course, the only people sharing Isaac's visible food are the orphans and old people who are at the bottom of the Slum. But won't the people who crashed here exploit the weaker ones?

It is weak to the strong and cruel to the weak. If they don't get close, it means they have a shield.

I glanced at the group members of the vicious impression. It was hard to believe that they would protect someone, no matter how good it was. When you think of the five men who took over Newport City, the citizens of Newport were being exploited for money, not for protection.

Isaac lights a new cigarette and mutters, sucking out a long sip.

“There's something about this place that even the people who own it don't know. Definitely a fun neighborhood. Well, it's none of my business. ”

After throwing the buttocks into the canal, Isaac takes a glance at Port poem.

“If you're new here, you should say hello to the people next door. ”

Seeing people smiling and going back and forth with clean buildings, streets, and fancy outfits disturbed me.

The only passageway connecting Port and Newport City was a bridge called the Sky Bridge that was built in the middle of the Grand Canal. The rooftops of the five-story building that face-to-face were connected to each other so that ships could pass under the bridge were famous for being different.

Maybe that's why. Hundreds of people stand on the bridge and watch boats sail across the canal, and they look up at the bridge and wave their hands.

“I don't know who you think you are, but you did a great job. ”

As I took a small admiration and looked at my leg, the rat approached and said.

“Are you heading to Port City? ”

“Why? Can't I go? ”

“It doesn't matter if you're the administrator.... ”

Isaak grins as he looks at Rat's attitude and slaps him on the back.

“What? You're not suggesting that the people of Newport City are grounded? ”

“That's right.”

“What?"

“While it is free for people to visit Newport City, the people of Newport City must go through a thorough investigation, such as your permission and the purpose of your visit, to enter Port City. Not even I, the commander of the guard, can enter Port City unless there is a special purpose. ”

Isaac frowned and said, looking at Rat with a ridiculous look.

“Let's see if we can think of a reason. ”

Isaac scratches his head.

“When the sky bridge was first born, there were no restrictions on movement, so it was hard for people here to live and sleep here, but it was easy to spend most of the day in Port City. because if you just pick up food that is thrown away, you won't have to starve. If you beg on the streets, you earn more money than your friends a day. ”

“ ……. ”

“We searched crime and trash cans, like pickpockets and theft, and since they were four blocks from each other, I calmed down that Fort Shi people couldn't stand to fight. ”

“The mayor approved it? ”

“At that time, the mayor was opposed to being out of control, but he was suddenly promoted and called to the center. The new mayor approved it. The market has changed several times in the past, but it has never been withdrawn. ”

In the end, Isaac had no choice but to laugh. The city of Newport was geographically entirely isolated. The only way to get outside is to take the bridge to Port City and take transportation or dock on a freighter docked at the port.

It was something that prevented anyone from trying to do something motivated, or even those who were trying to escape the cycle of poverty. If there is no hope, people fall into even greater despair.

Fort Shi took away the will to revitalize the Slum while changing markets for the city's aesthetic and convenience. Well, at the same time, it made sense. He is also a policy to welcome citizens of Fort City in pairs.

“It's the same everywhere people live. ”

Humans are selfish animals after all. Welfare came from a world full of selfishness that foamed and opposed the introduction of public infrastructure because of low housing costs.

If you don't come to me, tell me about another world. Just live with the right sympathy and the right good will. I don't want to change the world or live a life devoted to the weak.

Isaac looks up at the mountain and walks past the guards who are turning away and into the building. Aside from the guards' rest area, the stairs leading up to the rooftop go through the infinite interior and up to the rooftop, where there is a clear line of sight to meet Isaac.