Nathan was walking toward the Rabbit Fighters' Cave with a restless feeling that wouldn't go away.
Once there, he lay down and stared at the ceiling.
"Mom… I'll stop being a loser,"
—words that had never come out when he still had the chance to say them directly, now played back in a low, quiet tone.
Nathan drifted off to sleep without thinking much more.
The next morning, everything went back to normal.
He stepped outside—
There they were: Validia and Velmora.
He didn't ask where they went. He didn't need to. The way they smiled said enough. That they'd been watching. That they cared.
He already knew where those two caramel-skinned women had gone.
Suddenly, the system popped up.
[Ding!]
[Continue the Farm Project]
He sighed. "Of course."
Validia and Velmora followed Nathan like two living caramel shadows—
one calm like a guardian fairy,
the other slippery and shy like a soap-bathing dragon.
Nathan wasn't surprised.
They'd been doing this for days.
