The Outer God Needs Warmth-Chapter 208: Lost Dream (3)

Today, as soon as class ended, I returned to my lodging.

Victoria was busy.

It’s been almost three weeks since that day.

The weather has gotten quite cold.

I don’t feel it, but the students coming to the Royal Academy are wearing much thicker clothes.

There’s also some confusion because of the different kind of cold.

Both summer and winter are equally cold.

Aside from the cold, the Royal Academy would be good if the classes remained normal.

No, the classes themselves are normal, and the classrooms haven’t changed, but there’s been some change.

It’s the dormitory.

Normally, aristocrats commute to school from their villas outside the academy. Only those with no money, or citizens like Victoria, use the dormitories, so most rooms are empty.

But suddenly, someone from an aristocratic background moved into the dormitory.

Without regard to their grade, they entered the dormitory.

So, unlike when it was empty, incidents have been occurring in the dormitory. Actually, to be precise, there’s been fighting due to the emergence of different factions and personal territories.

Like in the main building, groups have formed according to their factions, and in extreme cases, they start arguments if someone from another faction enters.

And some complain that the dormitory is too small or that there’s no one to help.

It’s a typical situation.

So, Victoria had to move rooms as well.

Since the Royal Academy is a class-based society, when the higher-ups say something, you have to follow.

To stop this, the only way is to get close to someone in a high position, but really wealthy noble families still commute from outside.

But the quality of the people following them has changed.

The vehicles they use for commuting now have guards, or more people have been added for safety.

The people who pushed the children into the dormitory probably thought it would be hard to ensure their safety outside.

At least, if something happens at the Royal Academy, the military stationed nearby will respond immediately.

That means the country’s political situation has become more dangerous.

Someone with moderate power is better off living in the dormitory, so it’s funny that the dormitory itself has become dangerous.

Anyway, I thought society would start discarding wind-up machines.

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But wind-up machines haven’t been completely rejected.

I learned that when Victoria went to the wind-up knight school, through her perspective.

If the wind-up machines were driven out, the wind-up knight school would have to close, right?

But that didn’t happen. In fact, it seems like they’re trying to train wind-up knights on a large scale, and the wind-up knight school is being renovated with a new building.

From what I overheard between Victoria and the teacher, they’re trying to completely exclude all wind-up machines related to the three companies and restart the industry from scratch.

They’re scrapping all the products based on the three companies and deliberately changing the standards to make them incompatible from the beginning.

In short, they intend to remake it into a public enterprise.

Indeed, it’s too far along to just pretend the wind-up machines never existed.

Various parts of society have already become dependent on wind-up machines, and life would be difficult without them.

At least in the transportation sector, it’s especially true.

The railroads that cross the country and connect to other nations—this is hard to replace.

Once I realized that, many things became clearer. They’re not just trying to eliminate wind-up machines; they’re trying to replace the entire companies. There’s too much production tied to wind-up machines to just erase them.

The country is working hard.

First, they’re focusing the hatred for wind-up machines on the three companies by manipulating the media, portraying the companies as foreign forces to separate the machines and the enemies from the hatred.

Of course, once wind-up hatred is formed, it continues to increase. Especially for harvesters who fled to small villages, they witness this hatred more often.

No matter how small the village is, newspapers still come in.

The articles about the evil companies hiding machines to kill people easily numb reason.

And once a certain atmosphere spreads in a small village, it’s almost impossible to change it.

The kingdom is aware of this and is trying to suppress it, but I’m not sure if this will be applied properly across the country.

Another interesting thing has come up.

This is information I got through Aurora’s perspective.

Not only in this country, but nations around the world are moving simultaneously to erase the three companies.

Still, since they have the technology, I thought some country would accept them and become a leading nation, but they’re imposing severe sanctions.

The related countries are even going so far as to designate them as public enemy states.

At first, I didn’t understand why.

But Aurora, too, had the same question and asked Solindigus for an answer.

He said that it was no different from discovering a blade that could kill the king and nobility at any time.

Like the wind-up machines that controlled the royal airship, they were convenient, which is why they were present in the kingdom’s core, but it was discovered that they could betray at any time.

This is from before the technology transfer.

It’s about honor being tarnished.

They had let a murderer into their safest territory, and any creature of territory would naturally react.

The more elite the class, the more they think about their lives. Added to that is something more important: their honor.

Their name, their family’s prestige, those things.

That’s what was stabbed.

It could be called a seizure. Even though the three companies had power, they didn’t have international influence.

I think I must have been thinking based on my faded memories. I thought that if a global company pulled out of a kingdom, the kingdom would suffer the loss.

But in an era when kingdoms are dominant, my thinking doesn’t fit the situation.

They erased the very places where the global companies could plant their feet. If a country thinks of it as an opportunity and accepts them, that country will be destroyed.

This country is also arresting people related to the three companies, investigating them, and putting them on trial.

The king will execute the people related to the extreme nation; it’s obvious.

Thinking of that, it’s such a waste that the warmth is being discarded.

If I could, I’d like to turn foreign royalty into harvesters.

But I’ll do that slowly.

Anyway, overall, good things are happening for me.

In such a rapidly changing time, people from the lower classes are easily able to rise. Especially if they have special power or skills.

Harvesters in Vern City. Among them, the technicians who were investigated by the country and then sent to the national research lab are many.

This means there are quite a few “tied” workers.

It’s clear that their lives will have no light, but the harvesters themselves don’t seem to mind their situation.

Some even think they can take revenge on the three companies, which ruined their lives.

But those people have all moved to cities near the capital.

Because Vern City is too dangerous.

No, it’s not just Vern City anymore. In almost every city, they’re thoroughly investigating outsiders, ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) and if it’s found out that someone is from the three companies, it’s become common for them to be beaten by a group.

The country says not to do it, and they’re trying to regulate it.

The problem is, those who regulate it turn a blind eye or even leak information.

So society is in great chaos, and witch hunts often occur.

Among them, there are those who can pass by unnoticed.

They are harvesters.

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Because of the image that they led the victims of Vern City, and with the state-run broadcast packaging them as heroes resisting the evil companies, harvesters have become trusted talents.

A Vern City person, who had been detained, appears on the news and gives an interview about what happened there.

Perhaps because of Aurora, the image of harvesters has been continuously managed, and because of that, harvesters have become trusted individuals.

Then, harvesters who lived in Brightshin were called from all over.

As the saying goes, opportunity is in crisis, and those whose faces become synonymous with trust are sought after everywhere.

Especially in professions where they’re moving places or changing locations, they’re preferred.

If people are treated kindly when they go to a place or region instead of being suspected, that’s an immense advantage, right?

Harvesters are finding decent jobs and rising out of poverty.

In other words, they’re spreading widely, right?

Then, they’ll probably have lots of children.

Hehe.

Prosper widely.

The more that happens, the easier it will be for me to warm up.

As I’ve been observing my surroundings as a harvester, time has flown by quickly.

I came in at noon, and now it’s already evening.

I enjoy the sunset through the harvesters.

The capital has changed a lot too.

First, when evening comes, white smoke rises from various places.

Looking down, there’s a huge thicket of thorns, and the buildings that have been scratched by them are visible. It’s the mark left by Maleficent’s rampage.

It’s too short to erase all traces in three weeks.

It’s not just minor scratched buildings that are the problem. The real issue is the buildings that have been crushed by the thorns, the ones whose walls are severely damaged, and those on the brink of collapse.

Looking further down, it’s very dark because it’s evening.

It used to be brighter. But after the magical lights on the streets were ruined by the thorns, they’ve been abandoned. Only the occasional magical lantern or torch still lights up the surroundings.

Because of that, fewer people are walking on the roads. Of course, the number of vehicles has decreased too.

But vehicles have changed a lot.

Many of the magical vehicles have disappeared, and now, animal-drawn carts are moving around.

Honestly, it looks like civilization has regressed.

But since there are many technicians and the kingdom is trying hard to fix things, it’ll be solved soon.

Right?