Melissa was the one who went through all those documents after all, and was far more clear on what kind of state the city was in.
Nevertheless, even if it was beyond saving, Reinahrdt had to do something. He was not only the governor of this city, but also a knight sworn to protect the people of the kingdom. If he turned his eyes away from these people, it would run against his chivalric code.
"Is there nothing that can be done?" Reinhardt asked. Even today, his order went on to do community service, healing, and providing clean clothes and food for the outer district people.
"Difficult, but something can be done if we confiscate all the illegal wealth these central people have amassed. However, even then… the disparity in wealth is extremely big. Everything, and I mean everything to their very last penny, was exploited and snatched away from the people of the outer district for so long that poverty has become something that they have come to accept without questioning"...
