Announcement to the Nation

Thanks to the efficiency of magical communication, news of the Mutual Aid Poor People's Army's destruction spread throughout the Scott Imperial Nation in just one day. Especially after the five great nobles sealed off all information concerning Aimoda-Flameclaw, the mid-ranking nobles who had no access to the true core secrets still touted their achievements as though they had won an ordinary war.

With these nobles, still wholeheartedly thinking up excuses to raise taxes and hold banquets, actively spreading the news, victory proclamations were posted at the entrances of many towns across the Scott Imperial Nation...

The contents of these announcements were largely identical. They used the most extravagant language possible to praise the nobles' countless victories, then the most slanderous words possible to condemn the "rebel rabble" for their ingratitude. Finally, they solemnly emphasized that nobles were born rulers, and anyone who dared question them was a wicked scoundrel who deserved death.

Perhaps during an era when nobles were benevolent and the Empire was peaceful, a proclamation suddenly issued by the ruling class would have drawn crowds of poor people "concerned with national affairs." But now, amid the turmoil of the Scott Imperial Nation, this parchment meant solely for the nobles to flaunt their victory had long since been ignored.

Among the busy crowds passing through each town gate, at most one or two literate poor people would glance at the notice, helplessly shake their heads, and leave as though nothing had happened. Even though many had learned of the Mutual Aid Society's destruction, most poor people who could still barely survive were not moved by it. They had "more important" lives to tend to, and no time to care about matters that had "nothing to do with them."

However... perhaps the notices posted by the nobles could not draw