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But there was no way to reject this idea.

”There is no other way to object this.”

”The Emperor wants us to stay away from wealth…”

”But who would want to take the job if that's being taken away?”

”This is not right.”

”I think we, the student council of the Rondai Academy, should raise an objection to the new law.”

Some students seemed to be angry about the law and tried to raise an objection formally. As these students were born and raised after the Khalodian Empire had came into place, they had never experienced the poverty, hardship and all those brutal lives of the past. And also, they had taken all goodness that had happened after the Khalodian Empire as granted, so that they did not find any thankfulness for the Empire, nor the Emperor. But when this happened, it was their families who became outraged by their sons and daughters.

”HOW DARE YOU! You cannot say such a thing to the Emperor!”

”F-father!”

”How dare you speak ill of His Majesty?! You are not my son anymore!”

”M-Mother??”

And with the older generation backing up the Emperor's decision, all talks of objecting the new law disappeared very quickly as its opposing factions had been new generation that only came into place very recently. They could not disobey their parents or their grandparents beyond them.

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