The sewers grew noisy again.
The little incident with Mad Rat dealing with Gap-Tooth did nothing to disrupt the entertainment. The rat-racing bets resumed, and the spectators roared one after another. No one would have guessed that an armed brawl had nearly broken out here.
For the people who scraped a living here, as long as they weren't the ones dying, life had to go on.
Xia Lin led Sky through the crowded throng toward the familiar rat stall.
Sky followed two steps behind him.
Her hands hung at her sides. True to her promise, she kept her lips firmly shut, not making a sound. She looked exactly like a child standing in punishment after a scolding.
"Hey! Young fellow!"
The Half-Orc vendor recognized Xia Lin immediately. He waved his large, hairy hands excitedly. "You're the first person I've ever seen cross Mad Rat and walk away in one piece! Most people would piss themselves at the sight of that big club!"
"Heh." Xia Lin grinned smugly. "You haven't seen anything yet."
"You're no ordinary fellow either." The Half-Orc chuckled, baring two yellowed tusks and spraying spit everywhere. "But that woman really was an idiot, preaching justice on Mad Rat's turf-holy shit-what-"
His words abruptly caught in his throat as he stared wide-eyed behind Xia Lin.
"It's fine. She's behaving herself now-" Xia Lin answered casually, then turned around too.
"-Holy shit!"
The rest of Xia Lin's words lodged in his throat.
Sky was indeed standing there obediently, but-
At some point, she had put on a ridiculous Dwarf Mask.
The mask had an exaggeratedly large nose, round cheeks, and a ring of beardlike decorations.
Paired with Sky's deadly serious, tight gray outfit and her aloof-looking long silver hair, the comical mask created a brutally jarring sight. It was like