In the Lower City of Court of Fontaine, streets that seemed prosperous on the surface were in reality wretched and dilapidated within.
Without the filter of a video game, it looked precisely like an American slum: crumbling walls, windows patched up with nothing more than paper after breaking, garbage littering the ground, and sickly people visible everywhere one turned.
Furina's pupils trembled slightly. She could not imagine how a city so prosperous could harbor such a ruined place. In the past, she had only ever caught glimpses from afar of the Lower City's respectable-looking facade during her tours. Only now did she realize that the prosperity of the Lower City was merely skin-deep; beneath the surface, it had long since rotted away.
Chapter 51