Shoji the Handsome-Dummy-Bad Guy

Throughout the entire Kurenai Village, no, the whole island, no clan hates mortals more than the Katsuragi clan. Even Tama-Artists born to mortals could only settle for guard duty in the branch clans.

There is also a dark rumor that the Katsuragi clan had adopted mortals to work in their grand mine near the northern peripheries of the island.

The thing about rumors is that some of them are true.

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A group of mine workers, tied in iron shackles, sang a haunting melody as they used their picks to dig inside the mine rhythmically. If one of them went off course with his digging, it would harm the others as well.

The mine workers were sweating profoundly, a testament to the gruesome work of the day. Despite their initial tiredness, they still weren't going to get any break; in fact, they hadn't eaten anything since morning, and some of them were sure to sleep with empty stomachs.

However, they were all too powerless to defy this fate.