“You guys can’t be serious.”
He’d encountered all sorts of weird cliche things in this city, but a real-live hustling gang blocking a passage in the city? He was just on his way to his house along with Raquel, and this was what greeted them? If he hadn’t cursed his luck enough, he was very close to doing it again.
“You heard us, kiddos. You gotta pay the toll to pass through. Unless...”
He noticed a few of them brandishing baseball bats and cocky grins.
“...Well, I’m sure you wouldn’t want nothing bad to happen to your girlfriend there, right?”
A few seconds of superbly uncomfortable silence passed.
“... What an utterly repulsive bunch of humans.”
“--Excuse me?” “You little shit!” “You wanna fight?!”
... He could be home right now. Watching anime or something.