I set my heart upon the bright moon, yet the bright moon shone upon the gutter.
Sadly, Big Rat did not know this Eastern poem. Otherwise, he would certainly have used it as his inner monologue.
Holding his sister, he drove the Red-Eye Rat toward the most winding and deepest sewers.
The place was so complex that unless Saintly Order members used skills that opened a map and marked locations, no one could know their way around.
Yet that Red-Eye Rat seemed to know the route by instinct, leading Big Rat deeper and deeper.
Their disappearance was not reported until half a day later, when the rats inspecting the room discovered Doorkeeper's corpse.
However, the higher-ups casually ruled that he had been eaten by rats and hastily closed the matter.
No one reported it to the Saintly Order.
Doorkeeper had been a slave too. Slaves being bitten to death by rats was nothing unusual.
The Saintly Order was in the midst of its fury, and no one wanted to stir up extra trouble.
Great Emperor Lancelot had once benefited from the sluggishness of the aristocratic system. Now Big Rat similarly benefited from the sluggishness of the lower system.
Ten days later, the Red-Eye Rat gave birth to a litter of Red-Eye Rats.
The rats went out to forage on their own.
Meanwhile, Big Rat and his sister ate the newly born puppies.
Their eyes gradually turned red as well.
A terrifying legend about Rat-Humans began to spread through the underground sewer network beneath Saintly Hall.
There was no shortage of organic matter here, and some escaped rats had even built nests of their own.
Now, those nests were occupied one after another by the red-eyed rat swarm.
The arrogance and depravity of the Saintly Order were breeding a new Demon