After finishing everything and sending the volunteers home, Hao Ren finally returned with Lorisa just as the sun was setting. The already sparsely populated South Suburbs looked even more like an abandoned old town at that hour. Other than the occasional elderly woman out for a walk or an unsupervised kid running wild, the only things to be seen were groups of filthy stray cats and dogs slipping between trash cans and the gaps between buildings. They were basically Lily's lackeys or Roll's subordinates, out patrolling their masters' territory.
The Husky spirit and Cat Girl had completely unified the cat-and-dog world of the South Suburbs. Each of them had organized an army of assorted cats and dogs that wandered around here all day. Ever since Roll became human, Lily had even overcome her fear of cats, so their cat-and-dog war had spread throughout the entire urban area. Anyone paying attention would find that the stray cats and dogs in the South Suburbs were now remarkably orderly, with the two sides' territories strictly divided down to individual trash cans and lampposts. Every Wednesday and Friday, the two groups would even have a fight on schedule. However, there were ultimately very few people with enough free time to observe a cat-and-dog war, so the general impression among the residents was simply that the local strays had recently started moving around in increasingly large groups, while the rats nearby were becoming fewer by the day...
It was worth emphasizing that among the rats exterminated in those organized and methodical raids, the fattest ones would almost always appear outside Hao Ren's bedroom or on his bedside table. Because of that, every few days Hao Ren had to grab Roll by the ear and lecture him for half an hour about how to conduct himself...