I have to notify Aponia!
The little cat burglar wrapped her loot in a mat and nimbly jumped down from the rooftop.
"...Hm?"
Pellervy sensed something and looked upward.
"It seems the people here aren't very welcoming toward us."
Pellervy watched the fleeing figure above, then swept her gaze over the wary thugs around them, whose vigilance concealed malice.
"Should we clean things up before getting to the real business?"
Pellervy's sympathy was reserved for patients tormented by Honkai, not for scum.
If Jingliu nodded, Pellervy would not mind washing her scythe in blood and purifying these pieces of trash with flame.
"Just intimidate them." Jingliu also knew that Liu Bai had sent Pellervy here to temper her, so she gave a slight nod.
—In Jingliu's eyes, the lives of such scum mattered even less.
The Nun and the Serpent
"Aponia! This is bad! Someone's coming from outside!"
"Pardo? What happened?" Aponia calmly looked at the anxious girl who had run in while she was treating a patient. "Someone outside? Who are they?"
"I-It looks like they're from Fontaine."
Pardo took a deep breath and tried to calm herself.
"They're not here to arrest people, are they?!"
If Pardo had to choose whether Fontaine or Schicksal came here, she would definitely prefer Fontaine. After all, Fontaine did not have all those rumors about human experimentation like Schicksal did.
But... that did not mean Fontaine was viewed all that favorably here. As a street town born in the cracks between the two sides, friction with either was inevitable.
"Did you provoke them, Pardo?"
"Uh... of course not. I'm not stupid... Fontaine is the Nation of Justice. If they catch you, they'll definitely chop off your hands." Pardo scratched her head.
—Only a place overrun by gangs like Dusk Street would chop