"Ever since you ascended to the throne, you have incited wars, allowed the nobility to oppress the common folk, and caused the people to live such miserable lives that public discontent has risen everywhere. Aren't all these enough? If I'm not wrong, those children were abducted by your secret guards, weren't they?"
"I..."
The Emperor of Beikun felt guilty inside. Those children had indeed been taken on his orders, but so what?
"I did it for the sake of those children, to provide them with a stable place to stay, to let them have full bellies instead of begging on the streets. Where did I go wrong?"
He wouldn't admit his mistake. He had ordered the children to be taken away for their own good.
Now those sold children would surely have enough to eat, wouldn't they? They wouldn't need to beg on the streets anymore, to live off others' whims, hungry one moment and full the next.
How could he be wrong? He did what he did for the future of the Beikun Kingdom.
"You—"
