And I never said it didn't, did I ever say in any aspect of my answer that it was some perfect utopia? No, what I said was that it was the only stable government in that region, which it is, and that it was the only thing with the actual technological infrastructure to do anything like develop the cure for the R Virus cause Dante sure as hell isn't gonna be able to do that in Aqua Palma if he does succeed, so everything I actually said true... Sorry I don't subscribe to burning the whole shitty house down when there's no alternate shelter to keep us from freezing to death in the cold once it's gone
I think you're doing this deliberately, I mean you just have to be right? This is not immigration for MC, he's actually a citizen of the Empire, as are those freed slaves you mentioned and if we went back to that conversation the ease of work transit to New Antioch was never wholly exclusive to former slaves but people from the provinces in general. It's s freedom of movement policy period, with former slaves leaving being a cherry on top of it. So again
foreigners might be have a hard time getting in but that's not the same within the empire itself or again you'd never see the population disparity with the provinces if the delay was that bad for them as well.
Are you just deliberately not reading my posts? Because it really really feels like that.
Read this very carefully, The cover story doesn't matter for the village, it matters for the MC when he infiltrates New Antioch! You have literally just ignored the entire argument again instead of what I was actually talking about, which was
the arrest warrant/death sentence New Antioch put on the MC for killing his father! And what did Dante say to justify this cover story? Why, to protect the MC, because since New Antioch was clearly 'guilty' of the crime they wouldn't kill the MC since they'd 'know' he was innocent, right!?
But hey, do some math for me will you? What happens when you add that to Dante knowing New Antioch didn't kill their dad, since he actually did it?
It equals Dante's entire argument for making up the cover story being BS, and was in fact going to get the MC killed as soon as he stepped into New Antioch!
That is the evidence! I don't know why you keep just ignoring that evidence like it doesn't exist even though I repeatedly state it. But I will state it again, what is wrong with accusing New Antioch of the dad's death has nothing to actually do with New Antioch, it's about him lying to Aqua Palma and sending them to go get killed for a lie which they would never do if they knew the truth and most importantly, it sends the MC to his death because his cover story blaming the MC for it made him a wanted man with a death sentence hanging over his head! Please actually read and address the point instead of just wholesale missing it this time, please?