Currently, only five people are left in the meat-selling area, Louis included.
Among them, two were ordinary people—a man and a woman—while the remaining two girls appeared to be subordinates of the red-haired man.
One of them was Aria. The other had short bobbed hair, wore dark glasses, and her pitch-black eyes stared fixedly at the group, ensuring they didn't make any move beyond her control.
Just then, the light outside flickered. Immediately after, darkness began to envelop everything like a hazy mist. Once again, the space around them turned pitch-black, with only the vivid red glow from the meat counter remaining visible.
Lucen stared at the counter. He'd been trapped here for an entire day—a whole day without food. Although he had just eaten some dry rations provided by Blaze's group, which had seemed fine and filling at first, now his stomach felt strangely hollow again.
