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"Please report your situation."

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Yes. The situation in the surrounding countries is serious. They have completely stopped functioning because they have made it impossible for anyone to get their money out of their hands. Also, armed conflicts are on the rise."

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　Discussions are underway in the Congress of the Orient.

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　The market price of magical tools has fallen at a frighteningly fast rate.

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　The crash has left many people in debt.

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　The powerful people in each city and the village headmen responsible for collecting the annual tribute in each village.

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　Or the common people to the mercenaries who traveled across the country.

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　Not only a certain class of people, but people from all walks of life got into debt at once.

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　The loan sharks' collection racket against them turned out to be a bloodbath.

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　This was a little different from what I expected.

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　Or perhaps I should have thought about it more in hindsight.

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　The people who were using the borrowed money to buy magical tools and selling them for a profit.

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　Some of them were quite different from ordinary people.

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　They were people who did not hesitate to use violence.

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　Some of them, who had lost all their assets at once due to the collapse of the market for magical tools, were furious at loan sharks who came to collect their debts, and tried to attack them and take their money away from them.

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　If you have power, you can get what you want.

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　Even if they could tolerate a little debt, they might have needed a place to direct their anger when they saw the desperate amount of the debt.

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　Of course, the people who lend money are not decent people.

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　They are also armed to some extent to protect themselves.

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　In fact, it is because of such armed forces that they are able to lend money and collect it.

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　However, there are those who can beat these loan sharks to the punch.

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　Those who had obtained their positions by [name].

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　A magic that had never been seen in the East before.

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　This magic had been brought to the small states, and there were those who had created their own power, half independent of the bonds of the states.

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　Those who have risen to be the lord of a kingdom by using magic and [name] may not be surprised if they have no hesitation in overdrawing the borrowed money.

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　Thus, there were clashes among the local forces in each country or region because of the debt.

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　The situation deteriorated rapidly.

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　Seeing this, the common people became even more defensive.

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　As a result, proper business transactions are no longer conducted, and the number of places where people cannot even buy food for the day is increasing dramatically.

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　I wonder if they will be all right?

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　Winter will come again sooner or later.

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　If we are having trouble even eating now, I don't think we will be able to survive even a proper winter.

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"Please report briefly on the situation in the cities of the Orient, as well as in each town and village.

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Yes. The market price of magic tools has also been greatly affected in the Orient, but it is still minor compared to other countries. The influx of people and goods from other countries is also controlled by the border wall.

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　The situation continues to worsen.

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　The situation in the Orient, however, is still better than in the rest of the world.

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　No, that's not quite right.

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　There are many people in the Orient who have suffered extraordinary damage.

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　But there is no one who is trying to protect themselves by disrupting the order by force.

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　Because they are thoroughly contained.

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　The walls that originally surrounded the country and the Orientals who have been placed in those walls and positions.

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　They were using them to bully us.

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　Even if you tried to sue them by force to get out of debt, they would immediately move their army.

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　They were not in a position to bail themselves out like in other lands.

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　Besides, the impact of the war on the common people was much less than in other countries.

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　This is because the construction work is still being done all over the country.

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　In other countries, the biggest problem after the crash is the loss of even jobs.

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　Especially in urban areas, the number of people who are impoverished because they can no longer earn an income due to the loss of buying and selling goods has increased.

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　But in the Orient, anyone can participate in the construction work and earn daily wages.

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　Even if they usually worked other jobs, they were able to participate in the daily work just for now.

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　There was a state of work and a minimum level of security.

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　That is the present state of the Orient.

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　But problems come from outside.

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　That is, people who are in need may come into the Orient.

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　Maybe it looks like a heaven because the rest of the world is so bad, even though we are still in a recession.

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　What will happen?

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　Lawmakers are debating whether or not to accept people from other lands.

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　But soon they will not be able to talk about such a long time, will they?

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　People who are using force in other countries to bail themselves out.

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　I am sure some of them can clear their debts from loan sharks.

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　But that is not the fundamental problem.

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　Because the whole surrounding area is already in a recession.

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　How can you still get something in a situation of complete shutdown?

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　I guess the easiest and quickest way is to take from those who have.

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　I am sure that they will act for their survival with their power behind them.

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　Then there will be another war.

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　I watched the discussion in the assembly, feeling that a big battle involving the whole group of small nations was at hand.

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