Some people had already ruined their own lives, so they could only throw caution to the wind and keep dragging others down with them, insulting and belittling everyone around them.
Those people deserved the harshest punishment.
Then there were the more pitiable cases. Some had sent away both their wives and daughters.
Especially when they sent them to countries in the western part of the Central Lands.
Nowhere felt like home anymore, and the local customs were vile.
Prosperity was no consolation.
As a result, these people were desperate to die.
As someone who had personally visited the Central Lands, Lynn could only say that, compared with the nobles there, the Empire's nobles were like giant babies.
The Central Lands' nobles were depraved in ways that made the Empire's look tame, and the common folk were even worse.
The churches there were also very different.
Nobles were already the sort of people who tended to indulge in all kinds of depravity.
But these two kinds of depravity weren't even on the same level.
One involved taking special substances, being manipulated by succubi, being hypnotized, and having diseases. Their games had reached the point where they took pleasure in torture and murder.
Some even killed people at the height of their pleasure.
The other involved having more partners and being just a little more adventurous than the traditional sort. Their greatest indulgences in life were gambling and sex, along with mildly addictive, naturally occurring substances like tobacco.
The two were completely incomparable.
The first kind was beyond saving.
The second kind was only temporarily indulging themselves. They could still be saved, and they still had free will.
Lynn could understand people who yearned for paradise.
He himself had once hated his family and tried to make friends, only to end up