The kitchen was located on the southern side of the circus, and there was no direct way to reach it.
A hidden door branched off from the passage leading to the Dining Hall. Only the circus's core members could recognize how to open it.
When Beast Tamer Zoke was about to open the hidden door, Catherine slipped in front of him and shoved him behind her. "I'll do it! I'll do it!"
A small depression lay in the passage wall, which was made of large, roughly hewn stones.
Catherine first pressed her finger against it, leaving the groove's outline imprinted on her fingertip... Whoosh! She directly cut away the corresponding flesh and snugly inserted her finger into the opening.
Rumble...
The door sank down, revealing a secret passage built from deep-red Stone Brick. The entire passage had not only been cleaned thoroughly but also polished extensively. It was spotless and sanitary.
The end of the passage led to the entrance of the kitchen.
Rather than a kitchen, it resembled a sterile laboratory. Just inside the entrance was a complexly structured "Buffer Room," used to disinfect visitors' bodies and change their clothes. If an emergency occurred in the kitchen, the Buffer Room could also serve as an isolation area.
A kitchen employee was guarding the entrance.
He wore surgical clothing resembling that of a doctor, along with a surgical cap and a fully enclosed breathing mask that filtered the air he exhaled and maintained absolute cleanliness.
Over the surgical clothing, he also wore a black leather butcher's apron. Stamped on it was an emblem of "hair encircling a chunk of meat," representing his unit—the Fear Kitchen.
After a big shot like Zoke stated their purpose, the employee politely led everyone into the Buffer Room, where they were isolated in individual sterilization