An entire hour passed after Kiefer left the mirror shop, and as Corey subtly followed and observed him, he was beginning to get frustrated.
At first, he was curious about the story and life of the boy. After watching him for an hour, Corey was beginning to lose his interest.
From what Corey had observed, the boy's job was to collect payment from certain stores.
Obviously, the stores were not giving the boy money for no reason. The boy was a slave who worked for a group called The Dread Vipers.
The Dread Vipers were a notorious group which performed a lot of terrible deeds that was imaginable. One of the deeds that The Dread Vipers was to provide 'protection' to certain stores… at a cost obviously.
The consequences of the shops not paying up the protection money was either complete annihilation of the shop and the family members of every employee of the shop.
Or… Every employee loses something valuable while keeping their lives.