A Long-Standing Grudge (1)

The scenery of the grocery-store street where Abel Anderson lived was always bleak beyond words.

It was no coincidence that, when he first encountered the street's desolate scenery, he remarked that it felt as though “1980s Harlem” and “twenty-first-century neon signs” had met and had a one-night stand.

Naturally, there was a reason.

That was something anyone could tell just by looking at Abel Anderson's city ID.

[Abel Anderson / RCMMA00041]

[447, Old North Sector St, AREA 49, RC]

Risk City, District 49, Old North Sector Street.

That was because, even within the same district, areas were divided into regions such as north and south, and old town and new town.

Even the street where the Hakugagumi club “Moebius” stood, which he had briefly visited when he went looking for Bansho Takemaru to avenge the destroyed grocery store, had a fairly glamorous atmosphere.

Thus, the atmosphere of the new-town streets was similar to that of the inner city...