>>5409565Pine decides to leave them alone. It’s best if an associate of them doesn’t interfere. She’s trying to move away from “the life”, anyway.
Then again, there’s no harm in listening.
Pine decides to visit a street vendor nearby the giant. She says the vendor sells pretty good dessert (and technically that’s true), but the real reason is unrestricted view of the giant’s lips at that position.
While Jess is enjoying a bowl of bananas boiled in coconut milk, Pine begins to decipher what is being said between the giant and her friends.
They talk about ‘the second rapewar’, a conflict which occured a few months ago in Clawflash.
They talk about Tian, someone in the ‘Bloody Lips’ gang, which hosts underground cockfighting for money.
Pine knows about this person. Unlike other gangsters, he seems to have a strange sense of justice.
When he caught a creep who tried to spy on women, he stripped the creep naked and left him inside a cage for several days. Food and water were served in a bowl. By the end, he was constantly scratching his skin like a dog due to the mosquito bites. Before letting him go, Tian castrated him with a hunting spear.
"A human is more intelligent than an animal, capable of higher thinking, able to do more eating or breeding. He regressed into one. He will be treated like one.”
His words still remain with Pine to this very day.
(Cont.)
