A Day at the Odd Jobs Shop (Part 2)

Xixi had already made it clear that she sought "freedom."

The agreement between the two of them had long since ended.

Han Yamei wanted to go to another world in search of her "clansmen." Though Xixi felt it was rather unreliable, she did not try much to dissuade her, because she understood... Han Yamei was a persistent person.

Once she set her mind on something, not even eight horses could pull her back.

Angela Baby would not leave Kino. After growing tired of staying in Wakanda, she had gone out for a stroll and returned again.

Big Cousin had gone out. She was the freest one among them; with a casual change of appearance, no one would recognize her.

She was also the most conflicted. She did not know whether she should stay here or... follow Kino and see another world for herself.

Clearly, another world was fresh and full of the thrill of the unknown. As for her, she had lived on this planet called Earth for two hundred years. From humanity's ignorant age into the Industrial Revolution, she had witnessed kings overthrown from their thrones and monarchs sent to the guillotine, and so on...

She was practically an encyclopedia of centuries.

She had watched history speed up. In the past, crossing two provinces took a day; now, in a day, one could fly from New York to the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Two hundred years had shown her far too many things, far too many people...

Mm, perhaps she was a little tired of it all.

Going to the New World for a change of pace did not seem so bad.

But she was also lost, because she did not know what she would do after reaching the New World, or what identity she would use