Compensation for emotional distress.

Ashe had always viewed that concept much like "mandatory team-building on a workday," a pleasant corporate myth that didn't actually exist. Yet, for the first time in his life, it had landed right in front of him.

The problem was that he was the one expected to pay.

The official charge read, "When Mr. Iger verbally abused Ms. Evelyn, you remained silent and failed to intervene. This constitutes active participation in group bullying against Ms. Evelyn."

A common worker bullying a mega-capitalist. Ashe almost wanted to applaud the Gospel's sound legal system. What made it worse was that after spending one precious Gospel Point to fact-check the claim, he discovered the Gospel's laws genuinely judged it that way.

Ultimately, it fell under a civil dispute. If the victim didn't file an official complaint, the Gospel wouldn't pursue it. Even if they did, the actual legal consequences were fairly mild. The victim could make reasonable demands, but if the offender simply refused, the Gospel would only slightly dock their overall social ranking evaluation. Compared to the Blood Moon, which placed an extreme, almost fanatical importance on human rights and protected speech, the Gospel was surprisingly lenient with public expression. Unless a person caused a massive, disruptive social impact, even blatant verbal abuse went largely unpunished.

The Blood Moon strictly prohibited discrimination based on race, gender, and education because such prejudice ran rampant there. In contrast, the Gospel...