...Now then, let's turn back the clock a bit...
[Well then, now we have an entrance to the underground secured....]
While Alice, Antonio, and Olstenna were busy chatting up Smoking a mirror under false identities, Hurricroak and the Doll Twins were busy following the men that Smoking Mirror had ordered to escort the thieves that were causing trouble moments ago.
The kaijin had partially hoped that Smoking Mirror's men had secured some form of passgeway to the underground that was quick and easy, like a big and obvious door, or a teleportation circle with very little security attached to it.
Evidently, they were...partially correct in hoping for such a thing.
Smoking Mirror's men had been dragging around the captured thieves for a little over an hour and a half, ducking into weird alleyways before leaving them and then moving underneath various gates and doorways that were definitely thrown in there for the sake of confusing pursuers following on foot.
