Fides City.
In a nondescript bar.
Gallio sat on a chair by the bar.
This was his bar, quickly gaining ample funds relying on liquor supplied by Lance, and his gang was growing stronger.
In this day and age, money could end everything!
Those who couldn't afford meals, the jobless and homeless, would kill a stranger for a full belly.
They would even sell their lives for the money you handed to them!
Fides was a city with relatively limited economic development, so there weren't many opportunities here, unlike in Golden Port City.
If you couldn't make it in one industry, you could find a new job in another, or if you failed in all jobs, you could choose to lie down or kneel.
A diverse industry could provide enough opportunities for survival, as long as one recognized their reality and harbored no illusions.
