Chapter 29

The black market… I’ve only ever heard of the place through rumors…

A vile place where all sorts of unsavory deals occur. A place where, though the Empire wishes to eradicate it, they cannot completely touch it.

To think it actually...

“So you’ve been working yourself to the bone to buy them?” Phoenix asks.

Vivian laughs bitterly as she leans her forehead on the palm of her hand. “That’s right. All this time, I’ve been working and working… but that hag sold them to the worst possible bunch! No matter how much I pay, they keep asking for more!”

“... You must care a lot about them.”

That much I can tell just by how she’s agonizing over all of it.

She could leave them be, she could even possibly attack the people trying to take the boys away. But she’s working an honest life trying her best to save them through legal means.

“... The old Master and Madam rescued me off the streets when I was hurt.”

Vivian goes to explain her history.