☀️ Arselia and Akonia

It was very easy to draw an obvious parallel between this whole story and the phenomenon of slavery. The "entrepreneur" finds a non-sentient human body, brands it as his own, and puts it to work in exchange for food, and then puts it up for sale like livestock. No law written by bureaucrats can fully regulate such a phenomenon, and even with individual compassion, the merchant's business acumen will easily find any justification for dehumanizing the product – and why wouldn't he? When there are no objective laws of conscience in society, and there cannot be due to its very imperfect nature, the immutable principles of Kami are also ignored due to ignorance or an excessive degree of knowledge of the material, which is itself elevated to the only true life absolute, and the surrounding world encourages the worship of Mammon – no adept of "rational thought" will be able to openly dispute anything here. "I would like to hope that it will not fall into the wrong hands," Myco finally said. "They deserve at least that. Otherwise, it's too tragic." Taking one last look at the doll and the saleswoman, she added: "Thank you for the interesting conversation. Unfortunately, I don't have enough cash with me to buy anything right now, but you have an intriguing enterprise. I hope you won't mind if I come back sometime – even just to see these two. And who knows what tomorrow will bring? Perhaps one of us will encounter an expert sorcerer in the field of human souls in a narrow alley?"