578 Our Handling Fee Is Justified (1/2)
Leather Shoe was an ordinary Venice government official. His main job was to provide temporary shelter for the tramps in Venice.
If every tramp were to seek help from him, Venice would run out of public funds. The Merchant Alliance was only maintaining Venice's social benefits system. It wasn't running a charity organization.
These government officials knew the best way to use public funds.
They would help those tramps who fainted on the roads.
This kind of tramp was easily killed by accidents. As long as the officials made sure there weren't too many deaths, it wouldn't create too much of a problem.
Recently, Leather Shoe encountered a huge problem. A lot of tramps suddenly appeared in Venice.
He initially ignored them because he thought the tramps were displaced by the recent war. Eternal Kingdom had a fierce battle with the Hades Devil King, Mammon, near Venice a short while back.
However, he discovered that things weren't that simple.
When the temporary shelter was filled up, Leather Shoe discovered that most of the tramps were Goblins and Gnomes with green words above their heads. There were a few Orcs too.
What about the Houndhead Men? Houndhead Men weren't intelligent creatures, so they were all imprisoned.
On the first day, he thought the tramps were displaced by the war. As time passed, Leather Shoe found that it wasn't that simple.
”Why do the tramps have green words above their heads?”
When his Orc colleague asked him, the Gnome, Leather Shoe, discovered his blindspot.
Yes, why were there green symbols above their heads? He recalled the reports about Eternal Kingdom and the large number of warriors of Eternal Kingdom appearing in Winterfell. He suddenly understood.
These tramps…
They had formed an extensive tramp organization. The strange green words above their heads had become their symbol.
”Yes, It must be like this.” Leather Shoe felt a sense of danger. He reported this matter to his superior, and he was given a new order.
”Continue to give shelter to these tramps.”