After arranging a second round of interviews for the following morning - hopefully her last morning in The Cattonary - Elise ran a few errands before meeting with Ichigo at a second entrance to the sewer system. This entry was one that took them down a manhole and under the main artery road that wrapped around the entirety of the inner ring, which was given the inventive name of “Inner Ring Road.”
As she lifted and shouldered the manhole cover open to allow their access to the sewers, Elise considered making a joke about the filth in the inner ring being no different than that of the outer ring, but decided against it. She had a feeling Ichigo’s family might be from the inner ring, and felt it unwise to insult people, even tangentially, that she knew little about; this was unfamiliar terr
