Through Fuginn's eyes, Arthur quickly learned about the backgrounds of Joe, Yura, and Lucius-
Joe was the fourteenth son of the president of the Ripla Joe Trading Company. With no hope of inheriting the family business and no desire to work hard to get ahead, he was a typical spoiled rich kid.
Yura, on the other hand, had a far more eventful past.
Born in the Old District, Yura had eleven names. At first, she had seduced people to extort small sums from them. As she grew older, she grew bolder too, and began setting her sights on the middle class.
After three successes, Yura's ambitions continued to swell, and she began working with the Inner River God Cult.
Or, more precisely...
It had been called the Inner River Shipping Mutual Aid Society back then!
At first, it had merely been a small organization founded by ordinary people who made their living along the Inner River, banding together to improve their chances of survival.
There were plenty of organizations like it everywhere, and it attracted no attention whatsoever.
Such organizations were extremely loosely knit and could basically be shattered with a single blow.
As for when the Inner River Shipping Mutual Aid Society had become the Inner River God Cult?
The documents did not say.
Clearly, the change had taken place in secret.
Arthur was somewhat curious about that.
But the person who interested Arthur even more was Lucius.
Lucius had been born into a middle-class family. His parents had both been private tutors; his father specialized in literature, while his mother specialized in music and was an accomplished violinist. Lucius should have had a bright future, but that had changed when his father suffered an accident-as the private tutor to the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth sons of the president