Macao's economy isn't doing great.
He used to be a boxing prospect too.
His career got cut short and he switched to coaching at a boxing gym because the crappy Prosthetic Body from his contract company caused vascular atrophy and heart contamination.
Gino took on hacker gigs, largely because she wanted to pay for surgery for her brother.
John had been gone for four months.
Rumors slid from "missing" to "dead",
The ashes were practically molding inside a metal box.
The inheritance he left behind didn't have a clear owner, but back then he'd made it pretty clear to Gino backstage—make a big score, use it to treat Macao and make life better.
But Macao never brought it up, and didn't automatically claim the money like it was his.
He admitted it very openly:
