"Bastard?"
"N-no... I said it's been a long time, sir..."
An Kai grinned viciously and tightened his grip on the fat man's neck. "You fat bastard, you've been living pretty comfortably!"
An Daun, the detector merchant nicknamed Fatty, flushed red in An Kai's grip, stammering without managing to get a word out.
He had never imagined that even after coming to the Chaos City Inner City, he would still run into an old "acquaintance"...
Especially since he had already advanced to tier two, yet still had no way to fight back against this "tier-one acquaintance."
Suddenly, An Daun remembered the handful of bad reviews he had received from Hanks back when he sold detectors in the Chaos City Outer City...
Could those all have been because of this guy?!
Looking at An Kai's vicious grin, An Daun felt as though he had returned to the Chaos City Outer City in a nightmare.
Back in the outer city, he had been a renowned detector merchant at the eighth tier-one level. Who would have dared give him a dirty look?
Everything had changed only after he met that old bastard Hanks and this fellow An Kai.
First, those two never paid for anything. They called it "borrowing," but it was the kind of "borrowing" with no return date...
Then there was Hanks. There had clearly been nothing wrong with his detectors, yet the man repeatedly claimed they were faulty to blackmail, extort, and beat him!
And that old bastard Hanks had never even paid for them.
As for An Kai, things had been simpler.
An Daun clearly remembered his first meeting with this seemingly kind-faced fellow. Before he could even speak, he had received a vicious beating.
Only afterward had he learned that An Kai was there to borrow a detector too.