The Path is One You Choose Yourself

"So... so that was the truth behind it all..."

Makino finally understood completely.

For the things that guaranteed the basics of survival, no matter how much money was handed out from above, demand would not change too much either way.

As for things beyond those basic supplies, most of them would fluctuate with changes in manpower, supply, and shortage, and in practice would not cause any real impact.

It was precisely because bottom-tier nations like theirs had been desperately holding the line that the residents of the Red Line could live so well.

No wonder that lofty Red Line was a place the whole world yearned for so much...

Makino was not like those other isolated people in the East Blue. She had been fortunate enough to hear conversations between Shanks and Dragon.

She clearly knew that aside from the peaceful East Blue, people everywhere else in the world were practically going mad trying to smuggle themselves onto the Red Line.

Because only the people on the Red Line lived what could truly be called the life of those above others.

"Wait. Then are ordinary people in other places not people too? As rulers, do you really not care whether they live or die?" Makino found the blind spot in the logic.

The World Government was clearly the lawful administrator of the entire world. Surely it could not be so selfish as to only care about the Red Line.

"That was what you chose back then. People always have to pay the price for the choices they make and take responsibility for them."

Shirahoshi shrugged indifferently. She turned to look at Makino and teased, "I had only just been born when that happened, but you were someone who personally lived through that major historical event."

"Right after the Reverie ended