The Person Who Disappeared on an Ordinary Day (Part 2)

Amidst the ruins, the boss silently gazed at the girl lying in a pool of blood on the ground, her face no longer recognizable. Her once beautiful figure had been dismembered beyond recognition, the cuts suggesting the injury inflicted by a sharp weapon.

Will it hurt?... You must be terrified, right?

He suddenly felt his heart clench and throb with pain.

But then I felt such emptiness in my chest, as if taking my heart out now wouldn't make any difference.

A long, long time passed. He slowly raised his head and looked at the sky. Suddenly, he had a strange feeling. The sky was so blue that it made his vision blur.

It seems that every time I'm determined to do something great, someone important in my life just disappears and never comes back.

Is this the price I pay for wanting to stand out from the crowd?

But why target yourself specifically?

A forced relationship won't be sweet.

Moreover, this guy claimed he was being chased and didn't want to implicate others.

If it were someone else, Gao might actually believe such a lie.

But the boss knew Fitz was lying to him just by listening.

If he truly fled in panic out of fear of being hunted down and implicating himself, why did he take all the valuable herbs and alchemical implements from the storage room with him?

Wouldn't carrying so much stuff make it very inconvenient to escape, and would also make you quite easy to spot?

In addition, the person left in the afternoon, deliberately choosing a time not long before I returned.

If he was truly being hunted, how could his pursuers have given him so much time to pack so many things and then leave the city so brazenly?

This reason seems like an impeccable excuse on the surface, and may even be somewhat touching, but a little reflection will reveal many problems.

It's a blatant and blatant lie.

It's just that Galan and Fitz didn't take these factors into consideration when they were trying to come up with a somewhat plausible excuse.

"Fine, if they're gone, they're gone..."

Since they've already made up their minds to leave, there's no need to try and bring them back.

Such behavior is meaningless.

The boss silently turned around and brushed past Galan, his face expressionless, just like usual. But if you looked closely, you could see that he had lost some of his charisma.

Galan didn't dare to make a sound and disturb his the boss. He could clearly sense that the other party had discovered that he was lying for Fitz, so his current stance was to stand with Fitz.

Perhaps in the boss's eyes, he's just as hateful as Fitz...

He didn't know what to do now—should he follow them, or just go straight back to the Inn?

That guy actually had a conscience; he left me several batches of the finished product before he left, so you won't have to make a trip back when the store opens these next couple of days.

"Um.

Xing Galan answered somewhat cautiously, afraid of saying something that might provoke the boss's sudden rage.

After all, I was somewhat of an "aid and abettor" in this matter, and I still feel a little ashamed.

So, did that guy say anything else at the end?

"Um?"

For example... when will you be back, etc.

Galan was still worried, so she followed the boss back to the shop while keeping a certain distance.

Just as I was about to enter the store, the boss suddenly stopped and, without turning around, stood there blankly and asked me.

"Um... he said... maybe... probably, he'll come back to see you sometime in the next couple of years."

In fact, Fitz never said he would come back, but Galan felt he couldn't be so honest at this time; he still had to give his the boss something to look forward to.

However, I don't know if my the boss will believe what I just said.

"Really... I'm glad you're coming back."

It seemed like a while later, the boss finally gave this dejected reply.

Then one person went into the back room of the shop and closed the door tightly.

Whether it was just her imagination or not, Galan saw the boss's profile the moment he entered and felt that the usually greasy-faced the boss looked much older.

In an alley not far from the shop, a child carrying a large backpack and wearing old-fashioned, obviously oversized alchemy gloves was sneakily looking in the direction of the boss.

When he saw Galan covering his face and chasing after the boss, he couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. However, when he saw the boss walk back into the shop, he felt a sense of desolation for some reason.

It seemed like a voice was urging me to run back and apologize to my the boss right now, that there was still a chance to salvage the situation.

However, he also knew that some things were beyond his control, and since he had made up his mind, he was determined to see this path through to the end.

I took one last glance at that rare little shop that felt like home.

Fitz used his childlike body to support the large baggage and slowly walked towards the city gate...

"Hah"

Back at the Inn, Galan felt utterly exhausted. As soon as he entered his room, he collapsed onto his bed and began to sigh.

"Is it because Fitz left?"

Only then did he notice that Lia had been squatting on a chair by the window, engrossed in reading a book she had somehow found.

"Hmm, you knew everything?"

"Actually, I overheard a bit of your conversation."

Lia covered her face with a book, seemingly realizing that her eavesdropping was inappropriate.

"Oh, so I did sense your presence back then..."

Looking back now, I do seem to have noticed that Lia was standing outside the door at that time.

However, the conversation with Fitz was so informative that he didn't have the energy to deal with so many things.

But now that I think about it, it doesn't seem like there's much of a problem with letting Lia hear those words.

Anyway, she won't get involved in these things, and even if she hears about the others, it won't matter much.

[The Elixir of Immortality]

These things held no appeal for elves, whose Elf were already nearly infinite.

As for the [Rejuvenation Potion]

Galan couldn't even imagine how tiny Lia's body would become if she were to rejuvenate; she'd probably end up looking like Fitz now.

Or will it remain unchanged?

After all, Lia always says she's still young and hasn't started developing yet.