congratz random man, you survived, you may want to, to the best of your ability, Leave.

Burk doesn't seem to actually care that much about it, though...

I'm really not sure why they're all standing around, especially that close to the action. Like at least duck behind the table and peek if you must?

Honestly, two seconds of concern is probably a lot from anyone who's fighting in this town.

Ok but why are the civilians just chilling so close to danger all the time? Does the whole city have a death wish?

They do have live training exercises around here sometimes. We know from the interlude that's what they're going to use to try to cover it up.

The bystanders are so accustomed to hero duels that they don't understand the danger.

@TBC

To be fair, this is the city of heroes, where they see mock fights regularly. They might be somewhat numbed to heroes running around doing shenanigans.

Also, if you see a floating GameSphere chasing a half naked buff man, your first thought is probably curiosity rather than "i should immediately flee the vicinity".

@TBC Two words: "Insurance fraud".

It's rare for Burk to lose his cool like that, even for a second.

The 3 ladies on the right not giving a fuck about giant lazer beams even after dude got blinded lol.

So apparently it isn't a death beam. But it hurts your eyes?

I'm betting this is an anti-esper weapon.

@Player_03 Not saying much, as conventional weapons are technically anti-esper weapons, as they need a presence of magic to do wonky stuff with it. Noel confirmed this in an earlier chapter.

@zed. It's not just here though. In Lorg a city without heroes in any form. When the ghouls led Toby through the city. The streets were full, when if ghouls are as dangerous as said. The streets should have emptied as they approached. Both the Paladin and Infinite'sgoons backed off the moment they realized the ghouls were there, but the townspeople paid them no mind as the walking murder machines made their way through town. I thought maybe it was just kind of an oversight at the time, but now I wonder.

@Sporf

Technically, they stayed clear of Tobi, who attracted the attention of ghouls. It is a well known(?) fact that ghouls hyperfixate objectives, so I'm guessing that the citizens have already learned to just mind their own business and pray they aren't said objective.

Associating with Tobi at that point would mean interfering with something ghouls are paying attention to.

@Sporf.
that does imply they know about ghouls. for all we know ghouls where a secret to the masses. infinite's gang seem to be fairly large and enough on a pain for Paladin to know about them so they could have learned about ghouls during their activity.

@Gray Well more specifically, it's a weapon you might reasonably pick to take down Burk if you believe Burk is an esper. We've already seen that Vonesperda goes for the eyes.