Chapter 389
"It’s strange, isn’t it?"
"Strange?"
While we were passing through the aquarium tunnel, Charlotte said that suddenly, and I tilted my head.
Was it really that strange? Thinking about it, filling a huge glass tunnel with seawater and stuffing it with all kinds of fish could indeed seem a bit strange.
I mean, sure, it was beautiful, but it felt a little... far from nature.
But it seemed Charlotte wasn’t talking about the obvious visual aspects.
"In the past, kings who ruled with absolute power amassed astronomical wealth. But even if they spent all their money, could they have built a city like this?"
"Ah, that’s true."
Alice, walking beside us, nodded as if she understood.
"Famous dictators have built giant mansions and private zoos even while their countries crumbled around them."
Come to think of it, it wasn’t just dictators. Even Middle Eastern royalty did the same. They didn’t rule entire countries alone, but individuals owned zoos where they took pictures with lions or collected dozens—hundreds—of cars that most people could never afford in their lifetime.
They even built cities from scratch in the middle of barren deserts with their massive wealth.