Night fell, and Luo Qiu walked alone through the streets of the small town--when suddenly, he realized that he did not seem to need to hurry back to the manor... In fact, he had never really needed to hurry anywhere before.
It was just that Maid Miss was away for the time being, while Da Zhe was in the Dimensional Gap... Nero was gone too, leaving only Luo Ya, who spent more time asleep than awake.
In the manor, the only one likely to be awake was Artificial Intelligence Eve, whom Maid Miss had left behind to handle the daily chores... Even Granny Ren was not in this foreign land.
Luo Qiu realized that the reason he was not in a hurry to return was that no one in the manor was waiting for him to come home.
The manor belonged to Maid Miss, and Maid Miss had even had Da Zhe and Nero clean it until it was spotless... It was spacious and bright, quiet and comfortable, but it... was not yet a home.
When he passed Mr. Smith's restaurant, it still had not opened. It seemed Mr. Smith was still at the hospital, accompanying his wife, who remained in the observation room and had yet to pass the critical period.
Someone greeted Boss Luo in front of Mr. Smith's restaurant. He was probably a regular customer... but to Luo Qiu, he was obviously a stranger he was meeting for the first time.
The man might have mistaken Luo Qiu for a regular customer here too.
The townspeople all seemed so friendly... Perhaps it was because the town was not very large, and everyone knew each other. Rather than living in the same city, they were more like neighbors from the same street.
This regular customer loitering outside the