{You've arrived at the set destination. Please be careful in the current area, the crime syndicate [Eclipse] is centered around here.} The car relayed to me.
I got out and breathed in the dirty air. I felt at home.
{Initiating automatic defensive formations. Six SSS-Rank formations launched.}
The car disappeared behind me.
'Neat trick.'
I looked around, the place hadn't changed much. The slums of Midnight City were once my forever home. The streets were a mess of cracked asphalt, uneven and riddled with potholes filled with stagnant water that shimmered under the lights.
Towering buildings loomed overhead, their walls layered in grime and graffiti, many of them abandoned or collapsing like the city had forgotten they existed or wanted to erase them. The air hung heavy with the stench of burning trash and something far worse, something rotting deep in the alleys that no one dared to question. My destination.
