On one side, it's seventy-eight Nagariel; on the other, it's a hundred and twenty-one Nagariel. With the mind of a Nagarielian, they simply cannot comprehend why the Federation people claim these two entirely different numbers are the same.
The young man doesn't understand either; seventy-eight is seventy-eight, a hundred and twenty-one is a hundred and twenty-one. What does appreciation or depreciation have to do with him?
He clenched the money in his hand tightly, looked at the overseers around him with fierce faces, holding sticks and cursing. His instinct told him, don't resist, silently endure; at least he still has money to take now.
But a movement that broke out not long ago, and some ideas spreading rapidly among the young people, made him want to take back the money he deserved!
He wasn't a lazy bum; he worked hard and should reap rewards!
He hesitated for a moment, then said powerfully, though not loudly, "I just want to take back my money."
