Chapter 139: 4-star (4)
I remember the first time I opened my eyes in a corner of the slums. That was the moment Dereck’s journey began.
Without warning, he was thrown into a hostile environment where he had to scavenge just to survive. As he struggled to endure it, a question naturally engraved itself into his young mind.
It wasn’t a deep question, nor something that would help him survive, but it was something everyone wonders at least once in their lives.
Why do we live?
It was a trivial question the boy asked himself while chewing a piece of hard rye bread, sitting in a corner of the street and gazing up at the sea of stars in the sky.
It was a cold street.
There were so many beggars lying on the ground that no one passing by paid any attention to Dereck—but he kept looking at the sky, his eyes shining brightly.
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Bang! Crash!