Although she lived in an ordinary apartment, it was not some cheap six-square-meter place crammed with an entire family. With forty or fifty square meters to herself, Shizuka Hiratsuka did not find it cramped at all. After all, she was the only one living there—a single dog who could barely be considered not single...
She even had a sports car in her name. Though it was not part of the luxury-car lineup, compared to most people, Shizuka Hiratsuka's ride was exceptionally eye-catching. She never had to worry about food or clothing, had spare money to indulge her hobbies, and could even support impoverished students under the guise of employing them. It could be said that even without relying on her family, Shizuka Hiratsuka enjoyed a standard of living comparable to the middle class in this country.
But compared to the "ordinary life" Sogo Doma had described, why did all that feel so miserable? More importantly, Shizuka Hiratsuka could not even refute him. The wealth gap in this country really was that enormous; the claim that ten percent of the population controlled ninety percent of the wealth was simply that real!
Even Shizuka Hiratsuka found a massive estate spanning dozens of kilometers to be full of things worth mocking, but Sogo Doma's example was indeed correct. In this city where every inch of land was worth a fortune, whether it was the Shinomiya Family, the Sanzenin Family, the Suzuki Family, or the Doma Family, which one did not have several castles standing proudly on its land?
The Sanzenin Family's castle might not have been as exaggerated as the dozens-of-kilometers estate Sogo Doma had mentioned, but saying it covered several kilometers would not have been much of a stretch.
And that was not even mentioning the Four Great Zaibatsu. Did not the