By the time Ice Dragon landed in Noah City, Harry and Raffles still hadn’t returned. There was only me left in the cockpit.

“Master, they’ve already gotten off the spaceship,” Ice Dragon said gently with a smile, concern in his eyes.

I nodded. Maybe it really was time to disperse. I’d tied them to my side. I had relied on them too much. I was the one who had made our relationship strange and now I’d become strange too.

I stood up alone, just like in the past when I’d gone on a solo mission. Boarding the spaceship alone, disembarking from the spaceship alone, and walking through the quiet Noah City alone. We’d avoided the entire confession day; before me, the dimly lit tunnel lay...