Having obtained the paper crane personally folded by the Serpent of Fate, Klein once again accompanied Mike to the East District.
Kapin had met his end at the hands of the chivalrous thief, Black Emperor, and a large number of trafficked people had been rescued.
However, as Klein accompanied the reporter Mike to the East District to investigate the current circumstances of those who had been rescued, his mood was particularly heavy.
Daisy, the daughter of the laundress Klein knew, was actually among the luckier ones.
She had been able to start working immediately after returning home, exchanging her own labor for food. Rescued people like her made up less than a third of the total, and most of them still had some savings at home. Their circumstances allowed them, despite their physical and mental trauma, to avoid rushing into work for the time being and patiently look for suitable jobs.
The other two-thirds of the rescued people had no choice but to struggle for survival. With the advent of textile machines causing large numbers of female textile workers to lose their jobs, they could usually find only temporary work that paid very little.
If not for the Aurora Society's distribution of supplies, which could barely guarantee the necessities of life, these female workers who had just escaped the Sea of Suffering would probably have returned to their old path of streetwalking, no different from before.
Even now, because the food distributed by the Aurora Society was of terrible quality and only sufficient to barely keep them from starving to death, there were still female workers selling their bodies due to sick family members or other reasons.
Even though Klein had brought down Kapin, even though Kapin's businesses had consequently been shut down.
Compensation had yet to arrive.
By comparison,