"I want to talk about something related to Rui Ka..."
The High Priest clasped his hands together, looking somewhat helpless. "He has completely disappointed me. I don't want to see him again. Is there anything we can do?"
Before he moved here, he had lived with Rui Ka, who had never believed that he had come to the Federation empty-handed.
Even before the High Priest arrived, Rui Ka had already developed the habit of spending money extravagantly. He disguised his luxurious lifestyle and uncontrolled spending as "proselytizing."
That was his excuse, but his desire for wealth had never diminished in the slightest.
He craved wealth! The High Priest's "lack of cooperation" humiliated him terribly. He had beaten the man he always called his "father" more than once, never holding back.
He had even made him write to the new High Priest, asking that man—who was his brother in name—to send money.
After being beaten several times, the High Priest was thoroughly disappointed in the boy and quietly left.
After he left, Rui Ka did not even look for him. He continued trying to maintain the same pathological proselytizing career as before.
Perhaps his pathology attracted some people. The small group now maintained a size of more than twenty members and had never completely fallen apart.
For the men in the group, perhaps being able to discuss certain physiological matters with women without spending money attracted them, so they were unwilling to leave.
As for the girls who had once wandered the streets, they would be used for sex wherever they went anyway. At least here, they had a place to live, food to eat, alcohol and cigarettes, and a television, so they compromised as well.
The High Priest no longer paid attention to this child. He had been one of