"What else should we do? String Brother Finger up and beat him, or kill him?"
"V, Lucy, do you two also think the way I handled Brother Finger wasn't like my usual style?"
Both women nodded.
Su Xiao gestured with his chin toward the people in the waiting room.
"See those Sex Dolls lined up outside? Forget killing Brother Finger-even if we just beat him badly enough to put him out of commission for a while, what then? Have you thought about the consequences? What happens to these Sex Dolls? Who else can help them besides Brother Finger?"
Brother Finger certainly wasn't a good person.
Even the Nomads would turn their noses up at the implants he installed in Sex Dolls.
But that was precisely the problem.
The people who went to him couldn't afford a proper hospital. They were pitiful souls at the very bottom of society, pushed to its furthest margins.
Even if the implants Brother Finger gave them were garbage, at least they kept them alive.
Even if they were barely clinging to life, even if they were struggling on death's door...
Even ants wanted to live. These people wanted to survive, even if their reality was as agonizing as hell.
Cutting Brother Finger in two would certainly offer the satisfaction of swift justice.
But those poor souls who could only turn to Brother Finger-once Brother
Finger was gone, who could they ask for help?
Who would care whether they lived or died?
Besides.
As sleazy as Brother Finger was,
there was still a little kindness buried in his heart.
Perhaps that kindness was as insignificant as a flickering candle in the dark.
But to Brother Finger and the people who needed his help, it was already something precious.
Remember what he had been doing when they