The Outer God Needs Warmth

"Polaris and I left Victoria's house."

"We're going to the place where Victoria's parents sent the letter."

"Is that over there?"

Polaris pointed to a massive body of water, rising like a mountain in the eastern part of Vern City. With the sun now risen, it looked like a gigantic hat made of water floating in the sky.

The edge of it, now gently swaying above us like a coastline, gave a sense of how enormous this "hat" truly was.

"Yes. The letter sent by Victoria's parents came from the eastern part of Vern City."

I spoke as I mentioned the address. But Polaris looked at me as if she didn’t quite understand the address.

"Can we find it with that?"

"Yes. I know how to read addresses."

When I layer the memories I’ve obtained from absorbing warmth, the geography of Vern City becomes almost perfect.@@novelbin@@

So I don’t hesitate and proceed forward.

By the way, I noticed some houses strangely glowing. Not light sources, but what seems to be souls. In other words, people are there.

Not in abandoned houses, but in places where doors and windows are boarded up.

While I walk thinking that there might be people like this, Polaris comes up to me and whispers.

"Bel, we’re being followed."

"If they don’t touch us, leave them be."

Since I can see through Polaris' vision, I noticed someone following us. Some of them were the same ones I saw inside the house earlier.