97 Rampage... The Streets are... Blood... Run... (1/2)

After seeing off her last customer of the day, Mary closes the door to her room.

Within the room illuminated only by moonlight, she spares but a glance for the disturbed bedsheets as she picks up the underwear strewn on the floor.

In the same motion, she puts them up, then dives into her bed. Her beautiful face is buried into her pillow.

A lot happened today, so she is really tired now. Today's customers weren't particularly good either... let's just go to sleep.

”Nnー...”

However, the moist sheets and the smell permeating the room is just too uncomfortable. So she gets up with a sigh to open the windows.

The gag-inducing smell dissipates, in exchange for which the din from outside comes in.

”I wonder what happened...”

Usually, this is the time around when the sun rises, when even the red-light district is wrapping up work and heading to bed.

In spite of that, today the sky is showing no traces of lightening up, and the entire city seems restless somehow.

In the sky is still a blood-red moon, hanging there prominently.

When she looks further off, she sees flames enveloping several buildings.

It's a fire.

A faint whiff of smoke reaches her, carried by the wind.

But even before that, a raw, rust-like smell is stimulating her nose.

The fire is far away, and seems very unlikely to reach where she is.

However, something still seems different from normal. Passers-by are dashing through the streets. Why are they in such hurry?

It's just a fire.

As Mary is leaning against her windowsill, the red moonlight illuminates her in a bewitching manner. Her black lingerie stands out in sharp contrast to her white skin. Her purplish red hair stands out vividly even under the unusual shade of moonlight.

When such a beautiful girl stands at her windowsill with only her underwear on, normally men would stop to gawk.

But today, there isn't a single such person.

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With somewhat cold eyes, Mary looks down upon the red-light district and the faraway fire.

After being sold at 13, she's spent 5 years in this city. Everyone who comes to Outlaw City dreams at the beginning about getting back out. But with the passage of time, such emotions thinned out within her as she became colored by Outlaw City.

But hope has not entirely died out yet within her.

It might be easier if she gives up. She has been entertaining this thought recently.

Mary is one of the leading prostitutes in the red-light district, but she is notthe top. Her proprietress had said that she believes Mary could reach the top if she gets serious about it.

Surely that kind of a life is also not a mistake. Forgetting everything and just indulging herself in nights of ecstasy...

”Haah...”

It's been a while since she last thought about the outside. Surely this is the way how everyone becomes assimilated into this city.

Mary moves to close the window. But that instant.

”Kyah!”

A beast has leapt into her room through the window.

No, it is not a beast. It is a human-like figure that acts like a beast —— a ghoul.

”Ah, aa...”