In many news stories, people would always find something rather peculiar—
Those glamorous big shots would always accidentally expose some strange, even perverse, proclivities!
Then the public would have a question: How could a pervert become one of the upper-class figures in this world?
Was it a problem with society, a problem with the people, or a problem with themselves? Most of the time, the conclusions of such discussions told people that there was always a small group of bad people who had disguised themselves so well that no one could see through them, hiding among the masses.
Then they would win the public's goodwill and trust, ultimately relying on the power bestowed upon them by the people to rise into the ruling class and achieve a leap across the social classes.
Of course, the people who gave these men power remained at the very bottom. They would not use their not-so-developed brains to think about why, as the owners of power, they were always struggling at the bottom.
Those people had originally possessed no authority and had only been granted power by the public, yet they could occupy high positions? They never thought about any of this, as if... they never believed that they were always lacking the right judgment when choosing their rulers.
In fact, the public had gotten the order of things wrong. Most of the time, it was not that a bastard who was inherently a villain had hidden himself, only to accidentally expose himself after reaching a higher level of society.
Rather, these people had become bad after rising into the higher social classes.
It was not that they had been bad to begin with. Power and status had changed their proclivities.
Just like Conner.
There was nothing left that he had to take seriously.