For Your Sake (10)

The homeless people all stared at the unconscious Vance Kim with bewildered expressions.

Everyone was thrown into confusion by Vance Kim’s alarming condition as he suddenly began trembling as though he had been struck by lightning.

“…Did he run out of drugs?”

True to form for homeless people living on the streets of the old city, they frantically began pulling various kinds of illegal inhalers from inside their clothes.

(The series called Black Mamba was by far the most common.)

“No, you guys look so scary that he just fainted while standing up.”

“That goes for Hot Dog Man too….”

“Huh?”

Turning my head toward the voice, I saw the homeless man beside him smack the back of the head of the unbeliever who had made that insolent remark.

SMACK...