My Next Life in Teyvat: I Just Wanted Friends, Not Every Girl's Love!-Chapter 210 - 209 Thoma knew their concerns

"Well, let’s go to the monitoring station to register first. You guys are planning to operate in Inazuma next, right? In that case, it’s better to register properly. The sakoku decree is very strict. If you are found to be suspicious and there is no information when checking your identity, you will be wanted even if you escape."

Thoma knew their concerns. Meeting with the Inazuma law enforcement officers all at once made people feel a little uneasy, but this was also something that couldn’t be helped.

Some inspections cannot be avoided, and some rules cannot be followed, so... what they have to do now is to handle the irregular things in a proper manner.

Under Thoma’s guidance, the group first obtained permission to enter the island, and then went to the Magistrate of the Tenryou Commission to go through the procedures for residency. This procedure required paying Mora.

Originally, this was nothing. In Mondstadt and Liyue, they had also contacted official personnel and gone through some procedures.

It’s just that... when the other party brought up the handling fee, everyone was stunned.

It cost one million Mora per person to complete the formalities. Apart from Thoma, there were four of them, which meant four million Mora.

Not to mention Lumine, even Durandal frowned upon hearing this number.

Was this person trying to rob them because they came from other countries?

Fortunately, Thoma was here. The handling fee of four million Mora was finally cut down to only one thousand Mora.

Lumine and Paimon were stunned by this process (°ー°〃). They had seen bargaining before, but this was the first time they had seen a bargaining method that went from millions to one thousand.

But seeing that the other party agreed to this proposal without any embarrassment, everyone knew that there must be something wrong here.

"She’s lying to us."

While the person went inside to register Durandal’s group’s information, Durandal said, "This one million per person is a rule they set themselves. This money will probably end up in their pockets, right?"

Thoma nodded: "That’s right. In fact, they also know that ordinary people can’t afford so much Mora at all. But if... if the person landing on the island is a wealthy businessman and has a relatively easy-to-bully personality, although they will be shocked by this amount, they will still obediently hand over the money."

"Ooh, wow～ Is it that excessive? Isn’t this just bullying honest people."

Paimon was a little scared. It’s not that they didn’t have so much money, but if they obediently handed over the money, she felt that there would be more money-grabbing things waiting for them later.

"...Corruption, hasn’t the management noticed this problem? Or is it that the management is also in this situation?"

If you want to develop a country well, you must not have any behavior of enriching yourself, even if there is, it cannot be so exaggerated.

The problem that could have been solved with a few hundred Mora was forcibly made into millions of Mora. Durandal didn’t believe that the higher-ups hadn’t discovered this kind of self-enrichment behavior.

The Knights of Favonius of Mondstadt, the General Affairs Department of Liyue, these management levels may have problems in a certain link, but the overall situation must be fine.

But that person was obviously not doing this kind of thing for the first time, which meant... the management was rotten to the core.

Why wasn’t anyone in charge? Because they couldn’t be in charge. Once they wanted to improve, they would be attacked by other corrupt officials. In the end, in order to protect themselves, they could only join them.

Thinking of this, Durandal looked at Thoma: "Is this a situation that only exists here? Or is it the same situation in other places?"

"...It’s pretty much the same in other places."

Thoma hesitated for a moment and finally chose to answer the question honestly.

After all, even if he chose to hide it, they could still come to this conclusion when they left Ritou and went to other places and saw more people.

"Hey～ As the ruler of this country, hasn’t the Raiden Shogun done anything?"

"No, if she had taken any action, it wouldn’t have become like this."

"I see, I see. Heh heh heh～ That’s really interesting. Not only is there a sakoku decree, and no trade with other countries, but even the country is in such a situation. The Raiden Shogun hasn’t even come forward to stop it. Either she’s too lazy to care, or she’s being deceived by her subordinates and doesn’t know what her subordinates are doing at all. How long can such a country last?"

Originally, she thought that this country was only stagnating, but now it seemed that it was constantly regressing. This was not a good sign. Durandal had already seen a trace of destruction.

Durandal’s words were quite impolite, but they were also the truth. Thoma also understood this, so he didn’t refute it, but just smiled bitterly.

"However, what does this have to do with us? We came here this time just to meet the Raiden Shogun and confirm some things, right?"

Durandal had no interest in whether this country would be destroyed. If Lumine wanted to intervene, she could do something.

But Lumine had no intention of intervening at this time. After all, this was a matter at the national level, and her personal power was limited and could not change anything.

What will happen to this country in the future? Will Lumine’s arrival change this country? She was very curious.

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