...How disgusting.
Looking at the other person's twitching face, the Doctor felt a deep, heartfelt disgust.
Why were people like this everywhere?
But the next moment, she caught sight of military police patrols seeming to approach again, and immediately put away her violin to leave.
"My apologies for offending your eyes—I'll be leaving now."
"Um, wait—"
Natalia suddenly called out to the Doctor.
The latter turned around, and Natalia handed her the candy in her hand.
"Sorry, I only have candy..."
"No, thank you very much—"
"May you have a wonderful day, beautiful lady."
The Doctor smiled, gave a standard salute, then disappeared into the dark streets.
"Natalia! What are you doing?!"
She turned and saw her father suddenly grabbing her shoulders in agitation.
"Father..."
"How could you casually interact with such lowly people? You're supposed to marry a man with a higher title in the future! How could you make such a reckless gesture?!"
"Father... my shoulders... You're hurting me..."
"Natalia! Listen to me! You must never do something like that again!"
She watched her father disregard everything as he gripped both her shoulders, endlessly going on about why he had worked so hard to raise her...
A wonderful... day...
She looked at her father's roaring face, then gradually lowered her head.
At the same time, she began repeating herself over and over.
"Alright... I understand."
Midnight—the coldest hour of the day. Even the few remaining security guards were slumped over at their posts, snoring soundly.
After all, they barely earned anything in a day. Why work so hard?
Inside Chernobog Core City's Energy Management Office.
"Thanks to Chernobog's military police for the second time. They patrol diligently, but they mostly just wander around the outer districts, so the deeper you go into the inner city, the weaker