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Watching such a huge number of heads bobbing up and down in agreement, Emilia barely managed to suppress her amused smile as she pretended to clear her throat. "A-hem, another problem that no one seems to care about is what happens to people who have been forsaken by their own."
She paused, the amusement in her eyes fading away this time. "More often than not, those who dare to speak out against a corrupt system only manage to spark some small change on the larger scale, if that, but end up taking a severe backlash on a personal level."
Facing the silent crowd, Emilia knew that at least some of them must have recalled how they had suffered under the suppression of the previous government. And worse, none of them could even flee if they wanted to, impoverished as they already were.
