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The city was in a state of emergency. Screams echoed from every direction.
“Wh-what the hell?!”
“Have the debts driven them out of their minds?”
“What’s the matter with them?”
One day was all it had taken. The city of Paradise, which had been at peace just yesterday, had been turned upside down overnight.
First there was the chaos in the market that morning, and now the debtors, driven to madness, were banding together in a frantic charge toward the bank. Their weapons drawn and mana unleashed, they swarmed forward with murderous intent.
Of course, the credit chokers on their necks—the very ones that had enslaved them—were still there. Even now, the LED numbers ticked upward as interest accumulated by the second.
“Don’t they value their lives?”
“Who knows when those bombs will go off?”
The other citizens of the city were shocked, but they knew just as well as the debtors did that the credit chokers didn’t detonate randomly. They would only explode when debts remained unpaid for too long. As long as the interest was paid on time, even the bank, with all its power, couldn’t detonate the chokers at will.
These debtors knew this as well, which was likely why they were brave enough to attack at all. There was a reason that they hadn’t been able to do this before—they...
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