"I haven't seen it myself, but I've heard it from Brother Heizi and some drivers who come to fetch goods," Guan Shi said with a smile. "The small-time gangsters you mentioned, they have to hand over most of the protection money to the boss above, and the amount they can keep isn't even always as high as a regular salary. If they can't collect enough, they'll get scolded and punished. Those guys live day to day without any certainty, how can you compare that with doing legitimate business? Plus, they only collect protection money from certain people; they wouldn't dare to mess with anyone with even a little background."
"Is it really as bad as you say?" the teenager with chunibyo can't stand the undermining of his idol—it feels like a personal insult—speaking with jumping feet.
