Chapter 189

In the Lower Districts of the Court of Fontaine, the streets that looked prosperous on the surface were in utter disarray underneath. Without the game's twelve-plus filter, it looked precisely like an American slum—crumbling walls, windows patched up with nothing more than paper, garbage littering the ground, and sickly people visible everywhere you looked. Furina's pupils trembled slightly. She could not imagine how a city that appeared so prosperous could harbor such a desolate place within its bowels. In the past, she had only ever caught glimpses of the Lower Districts' respectable-looking facades from afar during her tours. Now, she realized that the prosperity of the Lower Districts was merely skin-deep, while its core had long since rotted away. As for why such conditions did not exist in the original timeline? This was four hundred years in the past. Although the power of the old nobility had been dealt a heavy blow, they could still barely maintain their grip on the lifelines of some of the lower-class commoners.