Given the current situation, Old Man, what you just said could easily be misunderstood.
The surroundings were still quiet, and at that moment, hearing Katon's explanation, Fu Qian couldn't help grumbling to himself.
Looking back over the three wishes they'd completed so far, it wasn't hard to see that while they seemed to jump around, they were still connected.
For example, there was the question of why Katon hadn't gone to meet Lucy earlier.
Katon had said he'd been perfectly willing and had the time, but in the end, he simply hadn't gone.
Then there was what had just happened at the inn. Though it hadn't directly explained the matter, it had clearly taken place at night, most likely.
And Katon had also said that his decades-long life without sleep had begun the day he met Lucy.
On the night Mr. Dawkins had felt unwell, could Katon have noticed something because he hadn't been asleep?
Could something have happened during their journey years ago, causing a supernatural change in Katon and ultimately leading him to stand Lucy up?
Even the third item on the list involved concepts easily associated with the supernatural—faith and secret societies.
There still wasn't enough to connect them directly along a timeline, but the three events were clearly beginning to show some faint connections.
There was even a reason, to some extent, why Katon had chosen this remote place to fulfill his wishes: this was where he had been transformed, where he had become fundamentally different from ordinary people.
In short, once he looked at things from this broader perspective, everything seemed to be getting clearer.
But that also invited an easy assumption: that this fourth item was connected to the others too—for instance, that after Lucy's family had just rejected the old man, he was