Was there true friendship in the Despair World?
Perhaps there was.
Though the perilous environment and lonely life might drive many Wanderers mad, making them increasingly hysterical,
that did not prevent some truth, goodness, and beauty from existing in this world.
Feelings were, by nature, something difficult to grasp.
As for the trio that had once provoked Saine—the Dwarf, the Double-Cannon Gorilla, and the Leopard—
Saine had originally thought they had merely happened to meet and thus banded together to survive.
There were many such groups in the Despair World.
Beyond limited cooperation, they also harbored a certain wariness toward one another.
There was even no shortage of cases where they came to blows over immediate benefits and gains.
But Saine had not expected the Double-Cannon Gorilla trio to possess some genuine feelings for one another.
At the very least, the Gorilla and the Dwarf truly bore deep resentment toward the Sharu Test Subject because of the Leopard's death.
When Saine proposed that the two of them cooperate with him in conducting certain experiments,
after joining Saine's ranks, the two fellows participated respectfully as well.
Moreover, Saine could sense their urgent desire to improve their strength.
However, ever since Saine had moved into the Austia Civilization Relic and renamed it the "Mechanical City," the Sharu Test Subject, which had brought immense chaos and destruction to this settlement area, had never appeared again.
For the first few decades, Saine had kept a close watch on the matter and guarded against Sharu coming to cause trouble.
But as time passed, Sharu continued to remain vanished as though it had evaporated from the face of the earth.
Saine gradually relaxed his attention on the matter and instead devoted most of his energy elsewhere.
After all, Saine needed to complete his own experiments,