remove 'pages' from url path pages/contact-us in mvc

I am trying to understand how I can change the way the routing works in this tutorial that I did.

Currently, if you go to a contact page for example, the url looks like:

mysite.com/pages/contact-us

I understand that I have a views folder with another folder called 'pages' in it, and I have a pages controller that sends the data to that view:

$this->view('pages/contact-us', $data);

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That's fine and it makes sense. But I don't want it to look like that. I would rather it was just mysite.com/contact-us without having to have the /pages/

I am not sure what code would be required to post here so I am going to post what I think will be helpful.

In my root folder with my index.php I have a .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L]
 RewriteRule (.*) public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

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In my public folder I have another .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 Options -Multiviews
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /jonomvc/public
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
 </IfModule>

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In my pages controller I have:

public function contact_us() {
		
		$data = [
			
			'title' => 'Contact us'
		];
		
		$this->view('pages/contact-us', $data);
}

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And this is my core class:

class Core {
	
	protected $currentController = 'Pages';
	protected $currentMethod = 'index';
	protected $params = [];
	
	public function __construct() {
		$url = $this->getUrl();
		
		// Look in Controllers for first value
		if(file_exists('../app/controllers/' . ucwords($url[0]) . '.php')) {
			//if exists, set as controller
			$this->currentController = ucwords($url[0]);
			// Unset zero index
			unset($url[0]);
		}
		
		// Require the controller
		require_once '../app/controllers/' . $this->currentController . '.php';
		
		// Instantiate controller
		$this->currentController = new $this->currentController;
		
		// Check for second part of url
		if(isset($url[1])) {

			$url[1] = str_replace('-', '_', $url[1]);
			
			// check to see if method exists in controller
			if(method_exists($this->currentController, $url[1])) {
				$this->currentMethod = $url[1];
				// Unset 1 index
				unset($url[1]);
			}	
		}
		
		// Get params
		$this->params = $url ? array_values($url) : [];
		
		// Call a callback with array of params
		call_user_func_array([$this->currentController, $this->currentMethod], $this->params);
	}
	
	public function getUrl() {
		if(isset($_GET['url'])) {
			$url = rtrim($_GET['url'], '/');
			$url = filter_var($url, FILTER_SANITIZE_URL);
			$url = explode('/', $url);
			return $url;
		}
	
	}
}

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