You and Kunikida had been assigned to work together on a mission. You were tracking down a criminal, and had been forced to ask around the local gangs to see if they had seen or been harbouring the criminal.

Which was why you were now both stood outside the door to one of the gangs' headquarters. It was at the bottom of a set of stone stairs, set into the side of the street. The door was lit from above my a paraffin lamp, and the door was a heavy type of wood.