NEW WORLD - Elevator (Patreon)

--Prologue--

Earth, Year 203X
Overpopulation has become a major global issue for the last 10 years. In the meantime, the mankind finally invented a shrinking technology, which able to alter size of living beings including human. After several long discussions, all leaders of every country in the world agreed to shrink down half of human population to overcome the overpopulation. The selection process to decide who would be shrunken down was completely random, regardless of their gender, age, social status, etc. The shrinking process itself was irreversible and permanent, but the shrunken ones were promised with easy and luxurious life in a safe living place separated from the normal-sized ones. After all of the shrinking project completed successfully, a special organization was formed to maintain relationship between the shrunken ones and the normal ones.

For a while, mankind was able to live peacefully, for both shrunken and normal ones. But then, the organization slowly became corrupt, and all of a sudden - they shut the organization down. The shrunken ones were abandoned with no food or resources. Therefore, they were forced to go back into the normal-sized society to feed themselves. While most of them are accepted as the part of normal society again, some of the normal-sized people see them as subhumans.

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"Attention all employees. We regret to inform you of the passing of our two colleagues, Bob Lopez and Ben Wallace. They have worked for this company as janitors for 10 years. With this announcement, we also want to remind every normal employees that the elevator for tiny-sized employees is currently under renovation. Therefore, please give an extra attention to your step when entering and exiting the elevator, as for the time being, we are sharing the elevator with our tiny colleagues. If you happen to step on one, please kindly clean the remains and report it to the management. As for the tiny employees, while you are permitted to use the normal elevators for the time being, please note that the company is not responsible for any accidents, injuries, or deaths caused by usage of the normal elevator. You are responsible for your own well-being while using company's facilities that are not meant to be used for your kind. That is all, have a nice day and thank you for your attention."