Reacting to Reading

Wind Island 3

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 Chapter 352: Tears 1

They wince.

Tears

Of whom?

A question that they don't want an answer.

"...How tiring."

Cale patted his shoulder with his hand.

Harris Village.

Cale had traveled to Harris Village. He had left on his own without telling anybody, so there might be chaos at the Lord's Castle right about now...

"It's all fake. So, it doesn't matter."

'Doesn't matter.'

'It is fake. It is not real.'

It was heart-wrenching to hear him doing his best to comfort himself.

To let him suffer this alone.

The somber atmosphere that surrounds them swells as they continue to read what the kind-hearted soul was experiencing throughout this test.

Cale repeated those phrases to himself as he looked in front of him.

He could see a tall stone wall in front of him.

This stone wall was created to separate the Forest of Darkness and Harris Village, as well as to protect the Henituse territory from the mutant monsters of the Forest of Darkness.

If.

If Raon was here right now.

'Human, human! Are we going to our house? Are we going to see everyone? I want to see them all!'

Cale started to frown.

"I should buy him an apple pie."

"Yes human! I love apple pie! Let's get more and more of it!" As he shoves some apple pie in tcf!Cale's mouth.

As tcf!Cale chews the sweet treat he doesn't realize that his heart has somehow settled and comforted with every bite.

A sweet remembrance that what he was reading is all a test.

A fake.

And he will make sure it remains a fake.

Cale thought about things he would do after finishing the test as he stood in front of the castle wall.

Crackle.

Cale quietly observed the small rose gold thunderbolt on top of his palm.

"...How odd."

The cheapskate.

The rose gold light of the Fire of Destruction was definitely on Cale's palm, however, he could not hear the cheapskate's voice no matter how hard he tried.

This was the same for the Indestructible Shield, the Scary Giant Cobblestone, and the Sound of the Wind.

None of them were responding to Cale.