It had been a while since he had been there, but Jake returned to the neutral world, the first world where he and the others appeared after leaving the illusion. While his spaceship was parked outside the planet, Jake rested on the grove where he used to camp. In the meantime, the others were talking with the other guilds and their members about the future operation.
"Knowing you, I suspected that you would show more refusal about cooperating with others," Virgilius said. "You aren't someone difficult to understand."
"Usually, I would, but this isn't a problem that is mine alone," Jake explained. "I guess we all are bounds to our pasts, whether we like it or not. Besides, I didn't want to give the enemies the chance to use those guys against me. I am a piece of shit, but I don't want to see myself in a situation where I had to decide between my life and a kid's."
"You truly have a bad impression of yourself," Virigilius said.
