It wasn’t like this when she left the palace. When she put on a servant’s clothes, draped a hood over her head, and half-heartedly smeared some dirt on herself, her heart was thumping in excitement while sneaking out from the palace’s back door.

But as soon as she passed through the main street and entered an unfamiliar alleyway, her mood plummeted to the bottom of the earth.

After Campbell Aria’s death, Charlotte Aria had almost never left the palace.

Although she didn’t stay inside the palace the entire 365 days of the year, she only looked around the royal palace or went back and forth through the main street to see Jung Sua at Evangeline’s headquarters.

She was told that things were okay, that things weren’t so bad.

Although people became impoverished from the long war, she was told that Eva’s situation was better than that of the other cities. That was what Jung Sua said.

So when she faced Eva’s bare face, Charlotte Aria became lost for words. She could not even breathe from utter shock at the visible horrors.

The streets were dirty and reeked with a foul stench. The residents sitting helplessly on the streets were considered the noblemen. There were boney children rummaging through trash cans and short corpses mixed with filth abandoned in alleyways.

Charlotte Aria’s pupils shook violently as she witnessed this scenery.

Even a king could not take care of all the poor. Valhalla was spending large amounts of money every day to support the masses, but it was impossible to save all of Eva.

This was after the corrupt Eva Alliance disappeared and the streets had gotten better with Valhalla’s help.

“Uuuk!”

Charlotte Aria threw up unknowingly. If she had witnessed the same nightlife scenery that Seol Jihu did on his first night in Eva, she might have fainted on the spot.

Suddenly, she felt several stares. It wasn’t just one or two. There were gazes from all directions.

“!”

Raising her head with difficulty, Charlotte Aria flinched. Unfamiliar gazes were directed at her.

Eyes that lost the will to live stared at her. Feeling like they were looks of resentment, Charlotte Aria shook her head reflexively.

‘No.’

This place wasn’t Eva. It wasn’t the city Charlotte Aria knew, no, heard about.

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