What If I Became a Benevolent Lord?
When Sherlock had heard what the Evil Eye said earlier, he had instinctively assumed that the number of slaves in the city was three times the number of Free People... There might also be the benevolent lord's own slaves, but there couldn't be many more.
But this ratio between Free People and slaves... was far too strange!
In other cities, this ratio generally didn't exceed one to four.
--But in Paradise City, this ratio was an astonishing one to three hundred! Rather than "Free People," they were more like "nobles"! "I see..."
Iver gave his sharp assessment: "He probably invented the Feudal System."
--If the Free People's treatment was good enough, then all they needed to do was reduce the number of Free People.
"But with so many slaves..." Lily, hidden in Iver's shadow, couldn't help asking, "Couldn't they sneak a little food? They couldn't control that, could they?"
"They can control it, miss."
Although no one knew where the voice had come from, the Evil Eye obediently gave an answer--clearly, Lily wasn't the first person to ask this: "All that food has especially vivid colors, and those colors cannot be digested or eliminated. If those lowly people dare to eat the free bread, free meat, or free drinks, their feces will be colored.
"All slaves use designated toilets, and defecating anywhere outside a toilet is punishable by death. Every day, Adil sends people to inspect the toilets. If colored feces are detected, then all the slaves who used that toilet will be executed together, unless they present the thief's head before the inspectors arrive.
"The slaves must find and kill the criminal with their bare hands, while the inspectors will use the colored feces as a medium to curse them to death.