Xu Hao had yet to fulfill the promise it had made to the woman.
At the time, the woman had only asked Xu Hao to look after her husband and child a little.
She hadn't specified for how long.
Xu Hao hesitated for a second, then made up its mind.
It would stay in the general store until the woman's husband passed away.
Once the general store was gone,
it would leave too.
Xu Hao was a good creature.
Once it had promised the woman something, it had kept its word for all these years.
But Xu Hao wasn't so stubborn that it couldn't be flexible.
It had only said it would watch over the woman's husband until he passed away,
not the woman's child.
Though waiting until the woman's child passed away wouldn't take all that long for it, either.
But...
It didn't want to.
It had already given this promise to the woman so much time...
That was only because the woman had left a faint impression on it.
Otherwise...
it wouldn't have agreed to her request at all.
Xu Hao spotted another figure from behind that seemed somewhat familiar...
Xu Hao stopped mid-step.
Truthfully, after searching all this time, Xu Hao felt like it could no longer remember what that human looked like.
This time...
it had probably mistaken someone else for them again.
Though it thought that...
it had nothing else to do...
and it still couldn't find the way back to the general store...
Xu Hao kept walking.
Until it found the way back to the general store, it might as well look for that human along the way.
Xu Hao convinced itself.
That was right.
It was only along the way.
Xu Hao strode forward—
Oh.
More accurately, it hopped over.