[Deep within this gleaming city, the forgotten underground sewers were like a maze in the dark. You and the fully armed Tasaki Genshu arrived in this place where light and shadow intertwined.]
[Tasaki Genshu led the way before you, carefully wading through sewage and avoiding the slimy creatures and cobwebs hanging from the pipes.]
[Here, you had to face not only the foul air and rats scurrying everywhere, but also an almost suffocating silence, broken only by the occasional sound of running water and your own heartbeats...]
["Stay close! Fuck, those freaks have turned this city's sewers into a natural maze. Every corner could lead to a way out or a dead end. Anyone unfamiliar with the place could get lost within a few steps of coming in." Tasaki Genshu warned you as he continued through the stench of sewage.]
["Freaks? You mean the people who made that film belong to the Deformed Clan?" you asked.]
The Deformed Clan was indeed one of the city's nine great clans, though it ranked at the very bottom. Its members looked so bizarre that they could only spend their days living in the sewers.
["Not just them. Some Wanderers were involved too. They even invited me to appear in it, but I refused. I knew from the start that if they dared do something like that so openly, those nobles would settle accounts with them sooner or later," Tasaki Genshu sneered.]
["Were a lot of people involved?" you asked.]
["Forty or fifty in total, I think... But don't worry. Most of them are tenth-generation vampires like you. There are only a handful of ninth-generation or earlier vampires, and their strongest leader is only an eighth-generation vampire, just like me."]
[After reassuring you, Tasaki Genshu glanced back into the darkness behind you and asked