Barely a few weeks after Aito's imprisonment, a henchman of someone whom his father owed money, came to pick him up, saying that since Tevari was dead, he had to pay for it.
Ironically, nobody, nor the guards, nor Justice intervened. Thus, he had been forced into a position even worse than a prisoner.
Years of industrial fishing had depleted the ocean's resources. Paying fishermen became nonprofitable, for they would always bring fewer and fewer fish. Even with the overall price of fish rising to an unreasonable level, fishing companies couldn't remunerate their employees properly. Thus the birth of a new "profession": fishing slaves.
Forbidden?
Injust?
Who cared?
On the open sea, no one was willing to check and chase those ships. A few adventurous fools had tried to denounce such practices but ended up at the end of a fishing line.
