Chapter 30 · A Cruel Festival

The air in the office was thick with the smell of old paper and stale ink.

Erhan roughly pushed aside the reports piled like a mountain on the desk.

The stack of papers scattered across the floor with a loud clatter.

"Is this really true?"

The contents of the reports were uniformly horrific.

Riots, arson, and revenge killings erupting from the deep-rooted hatred between humans and Hwa-in.

"In the capital alone, an average of ten murders are reported each day. Human merchants slit the throats of Hwa-in servants, Hwa-in vagrants abduct human women... It is utter chaos."

Unlike Erhan, who pressed his temples in agony, Sis continued his report blandly, like a machine stripped of emotion.

"I declared that discrimination between humans and Hwa-in would be forbidden... Why is the situation only getting worse?"

Sis answered as if it were obvious.

"Until yesterday, they treated them like livestock, and today…