Give Back My Feelings!

But just as he was about to activate his return-to-city skill, a sudden sense of dread rose in his chest, as if returning to Infinite City would make him lose something important.

He stopped, turned around, and slowly walked out of the underground cave, his gaze sweeping across the sea.

"Was that an illusion?"

He muttered to himself, then prepared to activate the return-to-city skill again—but that feeling returned.

If it had happened only once, he could have explained it away as an illusion. But now, he was certain it was no illusion. So where was the problem?

He closed his eyes and began reviewing every memory from the past ten years.

Tide Village was not somewhere he had come for the first time. After accepting the mission, his first landing point upon entering the Sea of Heroes had happened to be Tide Village.

Suddenly, the face of a delicate, beautiful woman surfaced in his mind.

The women of the Sea of Heroes especially worshipped and adored tall, valiant men with the bearing of heroes.

Though it might sound like self-praise, Mark felt he was fairly decent—tall and mighty, imposing and spirited. After weathering countless storms and fighting battle after battle, beneath his youthful appearance lay the wild, unrestrained air of an old man. He could charm thousands of young girls in minutes.

On the first night after arriving in Tide Village, a woman had been drawn to his aura. Unable to suppress the stirrings in her heart, she had quietly knocked on his door. Mark had always welcomed any woman who came his way, so that night, thunder stirred fire from the earth, and some things happened that children should not see.

The next day, he had patted his backside and left Tide Village, beginning his patrol mission. Only