Saint Louis City.
At the exit of an alley, a slender yet resilient young girl stood, her figure draped entirely in a deep brown robe, head slightly lowered. Her face was covered with obvious cosmetics to disguise her true identity.
She stood at the alley's exit for a few seconds before nonchalantly merging into the flow of people on the street, heading toward the center of the city.
About ten minutes later, she reached a large complex of buildings at the city center, once the mansion of the Pompo Family.
The mansion looked radically changed; the once austere black exterior walls had been painted a bright white. Many walls and houses, which had collapsed in previous battles, were rebuilt. The porch of the main entrance had been torn down, and the emblem of the Pompeii Family had disappeared, replaced by a peculiar crest — an interlaced golden sword and silver long spear.
