The dawn light was slightly intoxicating, as Xu Yi and Lisa walked one after another along the tree-lined paths surrounding Chinatown, the swaying shadows of the trees cast upon them.
"We still haven't found it!" Lisa pouted, a bit disheartened.
They had come here early in the morning to look for the Black Carp, scouring all of the cat's usual haunts, but unfortunately, they came up empty-handed.
"Could it be that the Black Carp has left this place?" Xu Yi wondered to himself.
Although they were quite familiar with the Black Carp, after all, it was a stray cat with no fixed abode. It wasn't impossible that, having grown tired of Chinatown, it might move to an area with more attractive male cats... The Black Carp was a female cat.
Xu Yi looked around, the time was still early, and they were in a quiet grove, silent and deserted.
"It's time!" Xu Yi silently said to himself, then called a halt to Lisa.