After the production crew appeared, all the Teenage Kix members, including Game, shed their faces of "justice," took drinks from the assistants, and rested while chatting.
Even the arms dealers who had surrendered stopped pretending to surrender and took drinks from the production crew to rest.
It turned out that the black-market deal earlier had been a "reality show."
It had been fake.
However, it could not be said to have been completely fake. At the very least, the Bloods members whose heads had exploded and bodies had been burned by electricity were truly dead—beyond any hope of revival.
Vought was a gigantic corporation. Within the United States, and overseas as well, it possessed private armed forces numbering over a thousand men and had powerful connections in both the legal and criminal worlds.
By using connections in the criminal underworld to lure these lowlifes into deals with low prices, then notifying Vought's Super Heroes to wipe them out, Vought had been using this routine for more than a decade.
The production crew would lie in wait at the trading site, filming the gang deals and the thrilling scenes of Super Heroes fighting crime.
This could boost the news station's ratings and the public's support, while also effectively intimidating the local thugs and helping a city reduce its crime rate.
With so many benefits before them, even if the city government and police department understood Vought's little tricks, they would never intervene. They might even cooperate with Vought when necessary.
The public, the government, and Vought were all satisfied. Only the thugs killed by the Super Heroes were victims who permanently lost their lives.
But...
Who would care about a thug?
Besides, eliminating evil and upholding justice was only natural. If you committed a crime and were then dealt with by