Once the truck was repaired, they set off again.
During the day, Number Seven drove up front while Kafka and Stelle caught up on sleep in the back.
Silver Wolf had barely slept all night thanks to Herta. With dark circles under both eyes, she was pulled under the covers by Kafka to catch up on sleep too.
That suited Silver Wolf perfectly. She would have more energy to battle Herta that night.
Watching Silver Wolf rest up for the fight ahead, Herta felt rather worried.
By evening, after racing along for a full day and night, the truck reached Goff's hometown.
This little town in the Borderlands was famous for its circus performances.
Before the Giantwood Alliance was founded, the northern Great Desert had been a bleak, desolate place. Back then, most people scavenged scrap from ruined buildings and had no steady work.
People in the Northern Region had all yearned for the Southern Region's prosperity and peace.
Many people in Goff's hometown made their living as acrobats. Long ago, they had begun traveling to farms in the south to perform in exchange for payment.
That payment usually came in the form of food, which had been the best hard currency at the time.
But as the Giantwood Alliance rose to power, the Northern Region grew increasingly prosperous. Fewer and fewer of the town's circuses toured the Southern Region, while more and more headed to Giantwood City instead.
The Resource Points issued by the Giantwood Alliance replaced food from the Southern Region as hard currency.
Of course, that did not mean nobody went to the Southern Region anymore.
Some of the shrewder townspeople used the connections their ancestors had built in the Southern Region to get into smuggling.
Rather than performing acrobatics as their ancestors had, they became merchants