But he would never forget what had happened between him and the system. After all, that was what he cherished most, and the system was truly, truly important to him.
"Now that the truth is already right in front of me, I have no choice but to accept it. I should hurry home. Walking around on the streets is really depressing, and there's hardly anyone out now. It's practically like an abandoned village, though the lights in every house are still on. That's at least something!" Uzumaki Chenhao muttered as he looked along both sides of the street and down its center.
After saying that, he shoved his hands into his pockets and headed toward home. His emotions were a tangled mess. He had not felt this way in a long time. He was truly afraid, and deeply lost.
He walked along the street for a full fifteen minutes before finally reaching home. This road really was quite long. Compared to before, it suddenly felt much longer, as though he could not see its end at times.
"I'm finally home. I really don't know why, but that road just now felt endless, like I'll never be able to see the end of my life. Thinking about it now is really frightening. I suddenly realized that I'm still afraid of the dark!" Uzumaki Chenhao thought silently as he stood at his front door and looked back at the street.
He was not in his best state right now. There were countless things in his heart that he could not express, and he was truly miserable. He really wanted to vent.
"I should hurry inside. There's nothing to do standing here anyway, and maybe I can think of more things once I'm home. I saw so many of my Past and Present