Asterisk, Redevelopment Zone.
When night fell, the rest of Asterisk was still brightly lit, but this place alone was pitch-black. Aside from Joy Street, lights were almost nowhere to be seen.
"Bang!"
In an alley not far from Joy Street, a dull impact suddenly rang out, sending a figure flying out of it.
"Guh...!"
The man rolled across the ground several times, groaning painfully. By the time he finally stopped, he realized that people were already sprawled all around him.
They were undoubtedly his companions.
"Damn it...!"
The man struggled to get up, but the pain coursing through his entire body stopped him.
Only then did an irritated voice drift out from the alley ahead.
"Still not giving up? Aren't you annoying?"
A girl in a boldly unbuttoned Lefevre Black Academy uniform, with a thick scarf wrapped around her neck despite the season, slowly emerged from the darkness of the alley and approached him.
"I only tore down your casino. Do you really have to keep hounding me like this?"
Irene spoke impatiently, making the veins on the fallen man's forehead bulge.
Do you even hear yourself?
"Don't think you can get away with this, vampire!"
The man spat the words furiously.
"Get away?" Irene tilted her head, then suddenly smiled. "Who said I was getting away, you lowlife?"
Irene raised her foot and kicked the man off the ground.
He let out a scream and crashed down some distance away. At last, he passed out and lost consciousness.
"What a buzzkill." Irene did not even glance at the people scattered across the ground. Tugging at her scarf with both hands, she said irritably, "I thought I could sneak over to Joy Street for a few rounds while Priscilla was asleep, but these guys are still haunting me."
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