The street racer said nothing, but his eyes clearly showed his defiance.
The other young street racers and even their relatives looked distinctly unconvinced as well, clearly feeling that Xu Yi was making too much of the issue.
Even the young couple Xu Yi had mentioned, who had nearly been run over and killed, looked stunned, seemingly never having expected him to become so angry on their behalf.
Xu Yi sighed inwardly.
Although his arrival had brought enormous changes to the Sains Continent, which had now developed a powerful, fully established magic industry sector, its technology for everyday living had even caught up with Earth's standards in many respects.
Yet these changes were only material. People's attitudes had barely changed at all.
Although slavery had long since been abolished throughout the nations of the Sains Continent, a deeply entrenched sense of social hierarchy remained.
Nobles were nobles, and commoners were commoners.
In almost everyone's eyes, nobles were far more exalted than commoners, their status beyond comparison.
The young man and woman were clearly just ordinary commoners, while the street racer who had nearly killed them came from a long-established noble family in Bunta City. His father, standing beside him now, held the title of viscount, and he himself had even been granted a baron's title because he had been designated the family heir at an early age.
Thus, to everyone present except Xu Yi, the difference in their standing was like heaven and earth. Even if the commoner couple had actually been killed, they would not have considered it a particularly serious matter.
Had Xu Yi not happened upon the incident, they probably would not even have needed to pay compensation.
What saddened Xu Yi even more was that the young commoner couple probably thought the same way.
"President Xu,