"Honestly, that rich young lady from Otaki went too far."
Ai Haibara found Fujino slightly adorable, while also strongly agreeing with what he had said.
To put it bluntly, exploitation could not be excessive. Doing it once was one thing; if you endured it, you could get through it. But if the exploitation never ended, that was deadly. Making someone work as a host for the rest of his life and all that...
Who wouldn't resist that?
Even old horses and old oxen knew to cry or run when they were about to be slaughtered.
Let alone a living, breathing person.
Ai Haibara naturally thought the same way, feeling exceptionally helpless about such matters.
Her little head thought for a moment and made some baseless associations.
Speaking of a certain young lady from Kyoto...
Hmm, she felt a little like that Otaki woman.
She wouldn't force Fujino to become a host, would she?
Fujino definitely would not become a host, because she understood him.
But precisely because she understood him, she became even more worried about that.
Fujino would not sell his body, but his commission fees were another matter!
She had to stay alert against that bourgeois young lady from Kyoto corrupting Fujino because she coveted his body!
Thinking that to herself, Ai Haibara secretly spat and muttered under her breath, "What a vile capitalist who eats people without even spitting out the bones."
Fujino agreed with that sentiment immensely, especially the part about capitalists being original sinners.
There had originally been no capital in this world, and capital itself had committed no sin. It was only the capitalists who brought capital into this world that gave it the meaning of evil.
At the root of it all, someone wanted to become superior by feeding on others.
If people