——"If there were a system prompt right now, it'd probably say 'You have disturbed the spirits deep within the earth,' right?"
As his feet once again touched the solid ground, President Sa habitually glanced at the lower left corner of his field of vision.
But there was no familiar translucent message.
When a person has been traveling alone for a long time, he can't help but desperately recall the past.
It's as if it's a sort of self-preservation instinct.
Unlike when he was abducted by Sabellia, this solo outing made him realize another possibility.
If he really had crossed over alone, without meeting his brothers, without meeting Heine, he probably would've been fine, but his mindset wouldn't be as secure and at ease as it is now.
The connections with others, with Makala, felt like ropes pulling at his will, preventing it from becoming lost in the vast wilderness, from aimlessly wandering or veering toward an extreme.
