Chapter 20: One Year Later

Chapter 20: One Year Later

Ever since the day Max joined the clan, the atmosphere had never been the same. For the first few weeks, every single person remained wary of him, their eyes following him wherever he went as if expecting disaster to spill from his hands at any moment. Only Light ran to him every day, talking without end and helping him with the work as though nothing had changed.

The clan had managed to build enough houses to shelter all of their people. The remaining hundred or so villagers still lived with hunger clawing at their stomachs, but even that felt easier to endure with a roof over their heads.

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