Although it was almost the middle of the night, Jane, an 18-year-old girl, had to go out to buy medicine for her father who was afflicted by a modern, hard-to-cure disease. This modern disease was even more complicated than cancer, which can be cured cheaply with modern medical technology.
This was due to the disease being related to genetics, and the fact that it is inherent and genetic makes it hard to cure. Due to these reasons, the disease her father was experiencing needed at least 100,000 credits to cure, a sum that her low-class family couldn’t come up; especially since there were only two of them left. Thus, even with the so-called Tikbalang roaming around Pasig, she had to buy a symptom-diminishing medicine for her father in the middle of the night, not being able to bear watc
