The underground of Sand Sea Planet was an environment even crueler than Belobog's Upper and Underworld.
There were divisions among the Albino People as well. Those with higher intelligence ostracized those with lower intelligence, and the able-bodied ostracized those with deformities.
Notably, when Albino People married brown-skinned people, their children were also Albino People.
They were a purely subterranean race, with eyesight better suited to dim lighting. Conversely, aboveground, their skin easily became red, swollen, and peeling from exposure to the sun.
The Albino People living at the very bottom had the lowest intelligence of the group, roughly equivalent to three-year-old children, and could only say a few simple words.
But they did not lie.
Kafka could obtain information without even using her Word Spirit Art.
These fools did not even know how to refuse. Whatever you asked them for, they would give you.
Thirty years ago, fools like these typically lived only to around twenty. Chronic anemia made it difficult for them to survive past thirty, when their bodily functions began declining.
Then Norton arrived, bringing a business that exchanged gold dust for packaged food.
Human-Faced Mushrooms tasted awful, with a powerful stench of ammonia that shot straight through the top of your skull.
No one would have wanted to eat them if survival had not depended on it.
As a result, Norton's business enjoyed tremendous success here.
Anyone could dig for gold dust, which meant anyone could exchange it for food.
Norton was the only person who could pass safely between the Upper and Underworld.
The residents of every level welcomed this merchant who brought delicious food.
It was only thanks to Norton's arrival that the underground residents escaped their fate of being exploited, level by level, and having their blood drained.
On the night Norton disappeared, he