"I never expected such a big change after so many years, I almost can't recognize the roads here."
Strolling through a city that felt entirely unfamiliar, the young man seemed a bit disoriented. If it weren't for his confidence in his childhood memories, he would have doubted whether he had found the right hometown.
However, despite the enormous changes in the Mountain City, so large that he dared not confirm them, he could still find familiar buildings in the desolate corners and uninhabited areas.
The house where he lived with the Tifflin who adopted him as a child was still there, not demolished, because it was at the bottom of the Mountain City, now an abandoned area seldom visited.
Even the vagrants and scavengers seen everywhere in other cities were absent, let alone criminals like cultists spreading evil faith or fugitives.