Chapter 418.

Chapter 418.

Chapter 418. Heading to a Bustling City: The Serene-Eyed Girl with Soul-Damage. (1/4)

After driving for an hour, I made it to the city safely with Dawn without a major incident.

I located the closest hospital on my phone as soon as I entered the city perimeter. That was my current destination.

However, halfway there, I felt something tighten around my waist.

I immediately pulled over to the side of the road and asked hesitantly, “Hey, Dawn.”

“...”

“Are you listening?”

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Did she snap out of it or not?

Just when I was about to get off the motorcycle to check up on her condition a confused slightly anxious voice came from behind.

“Uh... Ran? Where... are we exactly?”

The tensed-up muscles in my shoulders relaxed when I heard her voice.

“We’re not in the countryside anymore if that wasn’t obvious enough.”

“Huh? When did we get here?”

“We just arrived. You’ve been spaced out for quite a while now.”

“What happened to my truck?”

“It hasn’t moved from where we left it.”

“I... don’t recognize where we are right now. Where did yuh take me exactly? Weren’t we going to head to my farm?”

“You never told me where it was and you’ve been completely out of it and unresponsive. I was worried and thought something was wrong so I drove to the city.”

“The city? Yuh mean... this isn’t a town along the way to the city... but the city itself?”

“Yeah. But what happened to you exactly? There’s no way you can call what happened to you simply losing yourself in a daydream.”

“What do yuh mean?”

“I tried plenty of things to get your attention but you didn’t respond to anything.”

“I don’t really know what to say. I was really just daydreaming about something.”

“About what?”

“Imagining what life in the city as yuh described it would be like.”

“Want to take a little walk around the city while we’re here?”

“Is it... really alright?”

“Yeah.”

“But isn’t Rosa waiting for yuh?”

“She‘s already predicted I’d take longer than expected to get back.”

“She did? How?”

“Because I’m helping out a girl with bad luck.”

“Ugh... isn’t that a bit mean?”

“Complain to her, not me. I’m not the one who made that prediction.”

“Then... I’ll take yuh up on your offer.”

I parked my motorcycle and pulled the cover over it so nobody could see the battery tied down on the back. The two of us got off and began to walk.

Dawn’s head was raised up high as she looked around left and right at all the buildings towering high above us overhead. She made it far too obvious to any third party that she wasn’t accustomed to being inside a big city with high-rise buildings. If you took her clothes into account, she really stuck out like a sore thumb.

As we walked together along the sidewalk, Dawn suddenly opened her mouth and said, “Honestly... I’ve always wanted to see what a big city looks like with my own eyes. I’ve only ever read about them in manga and seen them in pictures and videos online before. They always look so interesting and busy. Like there’s always something going on and something to do.”

“How have you never visited one before? Your parents never took you to see one?”

“Uh... it’s difficult for my dad to bring me. He’s always told me I could visit the city any time I wanted to, but I’ve been afraid to.”

Her dad? What about her mother? Now that I think about it, why didn’t she think to call her mother before instead of only calling her dad?

“What about your mother?” I naturally had to ask.

“My mom? Uh... she left home...”

“Left home? Is that another way to say she died?”

“No. They divorced. My dad met Mom in the city and they got married. She was a city girl, ten years younger than my dad. She was eighteen years old when they got married and had me. Dad said mom was really pretty and it was love at first sight for him... but things didn’t work out between them in the end.”

“Oh, why didn’t it work out?”

“Dad was born and raised on a farm but he’d gone to the city to study agriculture. When his parents passed away, he inherited the farm and moved back to take it over. I was conceived shortly after he returned to the farm with mom. My mom couldn’t handle life on the farm though. He refused to sell his parent’s legacy so mom divorced my dad and moved back to the city alone...”

“Your dad took custody of you?”

“Yeah. My mom didn’t want to take up the burden of raising me. It was too much for her to handle and she wasn’t as financially stable, so my dad raised me by himself on the farm.”

“She didn’t take anything when they divorced?”

“No... she apparently never asked him for anything, not a single cent.”