"I remembered that the Hawthorne Family and the Black Family were also suspected of having ties to those cultists, but neither we nor The Church had found any leads so far. Make a note of that too. We needed to keep an eye on it."
Mr. Bernhardt spoke as he looked through the carriage window at an apartment they were passing. A headscarfed woman watched over her children beside a freight wagon piled high with the family's belongings, waiting for her husband to settle the movers' wages.
"Did you see that? That family was probably moving away from Moon Bay."
"I heard that quite a few people had indeed been planning to leave the city recently, but compared to its enormous population, the number moving away was almost negligible."
Shade also said:
"And even fewer nobles are leaving. It isn't just because they have property here. Most of them seem to believe that even if Moon Bay is destroyed, the Seven Great Families will be standing at the forefront. They'll surely find a way."
Local resident Mr. Albert looked out the window expressionlessly:
"The Seven Great Families definitely won't leave decisively. Staying in Moon Bay is the destiny their Ancestors left them."
"Though the Seven Great Families seemed to be nothing more than ordinary people on the surface, they must have hidden other Secrets. As for the other local nobles, compared to trusting the city Council and the Seven Great Families, they trusted their own luck even more. After all, throughout the entire Southern Territory, aside from Weilun Dai'er City, there was no other place as prosperous as Moon Bay City."
Mr. Bernhardt added:
"One obvious fact was that Moon Bay's local nobles generally didn't get along with the nobles of Weilun Dai'er."
That could also be seen from him.