The Sewer Pipes beneath Dark Night City.
A cat-eared girl ran nimbly and skillfully on all fours along the long pipe, occasionally turning back to meow into the darkness behind her and call softly:
"Here! Over here, meow! Hurry and keep up, meow~"
Wet, gurgling sounds of crawling came from the darkness behind her. A dense mass of blood vessels gradually emerged in the damp network of pipes. Every creature hiding in the sewers trembled and hid wherever it could, not daring to move, while mutated rats and bats fled in all directions.
But Eve clearly had no interest in them today.
She followed the cat-eared girl through the long underground pipes.
They had secretly escaped through the sewers, leaving Xiao Yada behind to cover for them, and had deliberately concealed their auras so Older Brother Lynn wouldn't notice.
"It's right here, meow!"
Miao Miao furtively raised her head and expertly pushed up the sewer cover with it, secretly surveying the surroundings with her cat ears squashed flat.
"This is Older Brother Lynn's Alchemy Room in Dark Night City, meow. Whenever Older Brother Lynn has some free time, he comes here to brew all kinds of weird potions. Since explosions happen all the time, the city's other great potion makers usually don't dare come here, meow~ But Miao Miao comes here a lot, meow!"
She cautiously watched from hiding.
Once she was sure no living person was around, she deftly pried open the manhole cover and climbed out.
"Also, this is the Royal Potion Makers Association's territory, meow. It's underground and very close to the great Matriarch, so if we make too much noise, she'll easily notice us and throw us out, meow~"
One of Eve's blood vessels poked out, an eyeball growing at its tip looking around.
It was