Kita and Raya step through the door and into a completely empty store. It has red lights shining from the bulbs in the ceiling and a chair posted by the door.

At the opposite end of the room are two doors, currently closed, but Kita can hear the low rumble of the music that Raya was talking about. After a quick search, the bouncer leads them to the opposite end of the room and opens the door for them. Allowing the music to start blaring through the store. The melodies and rhythms are now completely audible as Kita starts bobbing her head to the sound.

"Happy shopping," The bouncer says, gesturing for them to head down the stairs.

Kita smiles awkwardly and nods at the bouncer.

The staircase leads them to the basement of the store- positioned somewhere between levels one and two of the city. The rapid flash of strobe lights momentarily blinds Kita before she raises a hand to cover her eyes. The music, now much louder than before, bumps and rattles the entire room as a plethora of people jump and cheer in sync.

Along the sides of the room are curtained-off, private sections. That's where you do the dirty dirty.

They both step towards the party and glance around the room to see if they can find Vlad or any signs that they could follow.

"I'll get us a booth," Raya yells amongst the booming music before she walks off.

Kita steps a little closer to the crowd in the middle of the basement. She scans the bodies of a few of the participants before she realizes that they are all naked. Making out, grinding and fornicating on the dance floor as the music creates a collective rhythm. With each flash of the strobes, the neon paint on their bodies acts as clothing on their bodies, momentarily concealing their groping.

Surprisingly, Kita isn't very turned on by all of this. It seems fun and all, but she prefers her sex dungeons to be a bit more intimate. Just a handful of people, tops.

The music can stay too.

Kita glances over to where she'd last seen Raya to find her waving from one of the booths.

"Where would we find Jan?" Kita asks as she takes a seat beside Raya.

"I don't know," She responds. "This isn't what I was expecting,"

"Hello there," The soft voice of a gorgeous, nude, blonde lady says, as she steps in front of Kita and Raya. Her breasts are covered in a dark blue paint made to look like the first-floor clothing Kita and Raya are wearing. And she stands ahead of them in such a manner that her plump bottom perks out as she 'conceals' her privates.

"Uhh," Kita stammers.

"Hi," Raya says, raising an eyebrow at Kita's entranced state.

"Would you ladies like some company?" She asks sweetly.

"Y-yes please," Kita says as she looks into the girl's deep brown eyes

"No, no-" Raya interjects, "We're fine, thank you,"

"You sure?" The lady asks as she bends over to rest her hands on the table- Brushing her shoulder against Kita's "She looks like she could use some special care,"

Kita nods in agreement as they both look at Raya in an attempt to convince her. The lady caresses Kita's cheek before softly placing her thumb on Kita's lips.

"Maybe later," Raya responds.

"I'm not sure she can wait that long," The lady responds as she slowly slides her thumb into Kita's mouth. Subtly sliding it forward and backwards as she touches Kita's tongue.

"Alright," The lady responds with a big smile, "Maybe we can have some fun another time," She says as she looks into Kita's eyes and slides her thumb out of Kita's mouth.

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"Have a great evening," The lady says as she slowly walks away.

"God, you have no self-control," Raya says, rolling her eyes.

"Huh?" Kita mumbles, still captivated by the view as the woman walks away.

"Paying a sex worker would be the easiest way to have you killed," Raya chuckles.

As Kita watches the woman approach another table, the Lady gets a much better response. She takes a seat in the booth, beside a man and woman who both grin with excitement and the lady closes the curtain- but not all the way. Through the sliver that remains, Kita notices them all stand-up and walk through the curtain at the back of the booth.

"What?" Kita says in reaction to what she's seen.

"Everything okay?" Raya asks.

Kita stands up to close the curtains of their booth before she steps up onto the seating and walks to the back of the box. She slowly separates the curtains to reveal another box, identical to the one they're in.

"Y'know, prostitutes could teach you more than you give them credit for," Kita chuckles.

"Huh," Raya grunts as she looks across at the empty booth within their booth.

Kita steps over to the seating, and walks up to the curtain, slowly cracking an eye-sized gap to take a peak. Her shoulders drop before she swings open the curtains to reveal another basement, equally as big as the one hosting the party, stacked with metallic boxes.

Kita looks beside her to see if there are other booths, but she only sees the continuation of the wall, marking their booth as the only entrance.

"Hole shit, I'm lucky," Kita grins.

"You've literally died hundreds of times," Raya quips.

"Maybe that's just part of my grand plan, Princess,"

"Those are the same boxes in Ms Eeve's store," Raya says as she stands up to walk across the booth. "What's inside them?"

"Time to find out," Kita says, glancing around the room before walking over to the nearest boxes.

She slowly unclips the latches on a silver box the size of her torso. She momentarily tries lifting it, but the weight of the box doesn't even budge. Slowly, she lifts the lid of the box to reveal two palm-sized jars beside one another. Comfortably placed amongst the padding of styrofoam.

Kita raises an eyebrow as she reaches for one of the jars and lifts it into the light. As her eyes adjust, she feels an unnerving shimmer pass through her body.

She knows what this is.

"Is that-" Raya stammers with bulging eyes as she looks over Kita's shoulder.

It is.

A morphing shadow is cast through the jar as thick, black smoke shifts within the confines of the glass. The nervous vibrations in Kita's body start to grow as she realizes the stacks of boxes all contain the same thing.

Souls.

"Kita… What do you think those pills are made of?"

Kita says nothing, glaring at Raya with a strenuous expression.

"If there are other soulless people… Could they take souls as well?" Kita grows concerned.

Raya says nothing and steps over to the box beside Kita. She reaches into her pocket and holds her hand up to the light. Between her fingers, shines the star-like pill of immortality.

"You stole one?!" Kita exclaims and awkwardly regrets as her voice echoes through the room.

"... Yes, I stole one," Raya rolls her eyes.

"You preach a lot for a thief," Kita jests. "Are you a terrible person?"

"They make these with innocent people's souls. How am I the terrible one?"

"How do you know they're innocents? What if they're the souls of, uhh- criminals,"

Raya puts the pill back in her pocket and takes a jar out of the case to put it in her backpack.

"Stealing some more, huh?" Kita judges with a grin on her face, enjoying Raya's silent irritation.

Raya scoffs, "We should get out of here before you get us caught,"

"Ignoring me. Just like a terrible person would," Kita chuckles.

"You're so full of it," Raya says, trying to conceal her chuckle.

They make their way back into their original both, closing the curtain behind them on their way in. Kita peeps through the curtain to see that no one is suspicious.

They both walk out of the booth and make their way around the party. Their pacing rather suspiciously, but the bouncers pay little attention to them as they head to the exit.

Kita feels a worrisome atmosphere overcome her as her mind completes the thought from earlier- Is this why they want Jan?