Don't say anything after coming to Earth. Even when she used to run around the universe, Eve would still surf the Internet, and would often browse some noteworthy news published in various mainstream media. Just like Yuki Nagato, whose classmates at school thought as if she couldn't do anything but read books, she often used the laptop that Levi bought her when she got home, even though even Levi didn't know what Yuki was doing with the computer a lot.

"It's to show off how rich you are. ”

Levi took out his mobile phone and searched for it in a random social software, and there were a few users who knew that they were rich at a glance, and they were 'sharing' their way of spending the weekend with the majority of netizens. There are photographs clearly taken on yachts, as well as interiors of private villas that look like seaside, and most commonly in luxury stores where shopping spree and sitting at a single meal exceed many people's monthly or even annual income.

"It's not just the rich who like to show off. ”

Eve looked at the photos and said unexpectedly not like she would say them.

"Rich people show off their money, and people who think they are powerful show off their strength. Silent in front of people who are better than themselves, but go to people who are not as good as themselves to show off. Such people are common everywhere. ”

Eve continued.

Considering that she used to be a killer, and that she occasionally went to places like 'guilds' and 'commission centers' that were specifically for killers, I didn't think it was strange that she would say that.

Even if the killer is not a mercenary or a bounty hunter. Killers tend to be more low-key and gloomy than the likes of mercenaries and bounty hunters who feel 'almost'. However, in fact, as long as there are more people in a group, there will naturally be no shortage of any type.

Unless it is a single organization with strict management, those killers who make personal money to support themselves, why do they have to be as others imagine, even if they are 'off work', they have to make a taciturn appearance?

In fact, the people who love to go to those guilds and the like, except for a very few people like Eve, who have no choice but to take the commission themselves because they don't have anyone else to help. The vast majority of them are extroverts who like to join in the fun, and people don't look like killers at all.

Eve must have seen all kinds of scenes in that kind of place, and naturally there was no shortage of peers showing off and comparing with each other.

"It's true that many people like to show off, or most people like to be more accurate with others. ”

Levi chimed in.

"I like to compare myself with others, I want to be better than others, and I want to be recognized as better than others. It is precisely because of this mentality that so many people work hard to make themselves better. Become better than others. ”

Compare, show off. None of this is a pure bad thing in Lévy's eyes. He never criticized and banned his students from doing so harshly as some of his colleagues. He feels that as long as the mentality of students is controlled, even if they show off their family's other conditions in school, it can also be a spur and promotion for other students who are 'showing off'.

After all, desire is an important factor in human progress, and the desire to compare with others is also a force that compels people to work hard. Lots and lots of people study hard, work hard, and work hard even when they have something that seems to be enough for their needs. To put it bluntly, isn't it just for the sake of 'not being compared to others', a simple 'cliché idea' that many people refuse to admit?

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be better than others, as long as it's done in the right way, and Levi has always felt that it's something to be encouraged.

However, showing off wealth is an act that many people hate but want to do. You also see that people nowadays can easily let others know how rich they are in various ways. However, those aristocratic rich people in ancient times did not have the easy way to show off their wealth as these rich people now. ”

Levi swiped his finger across the phone screen, and all sorts of dizzying photos and videos kept swiping across the screen.

"Now you can take a photo with your phone for anything, and even if you don't post it on public social platforms like the Internet, it's easy to share it among friends. Unlike those rich people in the past, who bought expensive jewelry and wanted to show off, they had to wait until some banquets and other occasions to let others see it. And how beautifully built the house at home is, and how luxuriously decorated, if you want others to know, you can only invite others to your home. How can a few clicks on a screen like this now be immediately visible to thousands of people?"

The life of the nobles in ancient times, judging from some of the texts that have survived now, feels like a banquet, a banquet and a banquet. It doesn't have to be a grand party like a holiday celebration, and you can usually find a reason to invite friends or non-friends to hold a banquet called social needs.

On the one hand, this situation is indeed due to the lack of entertainment and communication with others in that period. They need these seemingly cookie-cutter banquets to fill their monotonous lives. Even if these banquets feel similar, they are at least a communication between people, especially when you can meet different people from time to time, which is far more colorful than waking up every day and opening your eyes to see the same scenery forever.

In addition to entertainment and convenient connections between friends and partners, another meaning of the existence of these banquets is naturally to allow those rich and noble people to compete with each other to show off what they want to show off. Especially the ladies of the wealthy who were more idle than the men, some of them lived as if they were for these feasts.

"You may not read many books with ancient backgrounds, but if you have the opportunity to read more, you will find that in ancient times, some people often got a good thing, and they would invite friends to come to the door to appreciate it together. Some of these people really want to share their interests with others, but some of them just want to show off to others as soon as possible that they have received something that others don't have. ”

It's not like nothing like that. Lévy also knows people who like to collect antiques or art. I was also invited to come to the door to appreciate the precious works of art that had just been auctioned at high prices.