Reminisced League of Nine, part 6 (after battle)

The space has changed. Where... was this place?

What are you talking about, Aneung. This is the road we would traverse all the time.

Oh... Um... Right.

This... was the place of my day's profession... or the avenue nearby.

Hm, you researched by night... and during the day?

I was an architect.

Ooh~ An architect, huh... That's a neat occupation you had, Yi Sang.

Neat, you say...

Originally, children used to run in these streets.

Although there weren't many... they came into my view on occasion.

Even a single abandoned ball could keep a smile on their faces.

I am vastly fond of youths as well! Are they not the most innocent beings?

But they're nowhere to be seen now. Where could they have gone?

Once children are old enough to learn language, they are taken to factories.

Among them are those I made... those factories whose architecture I designed with my hands.

Yi Sang...

They were optimized for efficiently monitoring people. It made pressing laborers more convenient than ever.

Perhaps the reason my income has been rather high is that the owners of those buildings run a profitable business.

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Well, even so... It's not like you spent that money to show off.

You gave it all for the League.

...Do you remember? The first thing I invented... after getting a job at T Corp.

The identification tags, right?

Yeah, I made them to help lost kids.

It's absurd, I know. Maybe I expected it to help more children reunite with their parents.

But now... they're being used to monitor the workers' time spent on the job in every factory.

Heck, I made those things, and even I'm not free from the obligation to wear one while working.

Those were the kinds of achievements we accomplished in T Corp's district.

Which is why... I became more engrossed in the mirror.

Untainted, unadulterated... I wished to immerse myself in the pure exploration of knowledge.

So that... I wouldn't have to take anything from anyone.

You knew you'd face those predicaments since the moment you made your way to T Corp's territory avoiding exploitation and abuse, haven't you, Yi Sang?

That you'd have to exploit others if you don't want to be.

So don't feel guilty about it.