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One cannot judge a person as good or evil by their appearance. The person in front of me, looked like they couldn’t hurt a fly, but could actually be a devil who was sucking the lifeblood out of these children.
Ms. Bell looked genuinely flustered and confused.
“I-I don’t understand what you’re saying, Mr. Reinhart. Why would you bring that up all of a sudden…”
‘Of course, she would deny it.’
“I don’t know the structure of the orphanage support program, nor do I know the exact method through which the money is provided,” she continued. “I’m not a stakeholder, after all.”
I sighed deeply.
After emerging victorious in the Great War, the imperial government had immediately started support programs to take care of the numerous orphans.
When I first arrived in the capital, I had seriously considered just entering an orphanage because I knew for sure that I would be given support. I had even made it so that talented war orphans could enter the Temple and receive free education, even if they were not placed in the Royal Class.
Because of that, the idea that there were kids in orphanages within the imperial capital who were starving and lacked clothes due to lack of funds was simply absurd. The fact that these kids were starving meant that someone was siphoning off the imperial funds. It was clear that the resources meant for the children were leaking out somewhere along the way.
The places Olivia was sponsoring were all like this. They weren’t in need of actual help—money was just leaking out somewhere along the way before it got to them. When Olivia had told me about her sponsoring these orphanages, I hadn’t said anything about it, but I had already figured out that there had to be some underlying issue.
Since the thought was still fresh in...
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