Akto

"What are you doing here, Akto?!"

Seeing the young man at the door stride in, dressed in a way utterly mismatched with the identity of a "slum dweller," Ganatica frowned in displeasure. He had just been studying the report on the parchment.

Within the Mutual Aid Society, the young man Ganatica called Akto was no ordinary figure. If Ganatica, the Society's "founder," was unquestionably its leader, then Akto, a former street gang boss, was its second-in-command. Unlike Ganatica, the "spiritual leader" who served as high-end muscle, Akto, whose strength was merely at the Apprentice Level, could be called the Mutual Aid Society's political leader.

Neither Ganatica nor Pandora was particularly skilled at the strange thing called "politics," so over the past few years, much of the Mutual Aid Society's development had been meticulously managed by Akto. Though weak in combat, he was exceptionally adept at handling interpersonal relationships, always able to turn "outsiders" into "one of us."

Of course, whether these "one of us" people belonged to the Mutual Aid Society or to Akto himself was hard to say...

Ganatica did not want to see this man at all, because... his ideals and Akto's were fundamentally different!

Ganatica was a thoroughgoing "great philanthropist." Especially after accepting that education—brainwashing—program that appeared to have come from Pandora but had actually come from the caster lurking behind the scenes, Mr. Hero's kindness had become somewhat extreme, almost saintly.

He demanded that everyone in the Mutual Aid Society do everything in their power to save any unfortunate slum dweller. Even if the person being rescued was a complete stranger, even if a single act of "rescue" left them penniless, it was still worth it.

But Akto had grown increasingly unable to tolerate his leader's "kindness." Before joining the Mutual Aid Society with nowhere else