(Edit later) "Only the old and the children can stay in this town; when the kids grow up, they naturally want to go to livelier places." The old lady sighed, "Little Soran too; she said when she was a child that she wanted to live here her whole life."
Given the current average lifespan in Zone 019, when Soran moved to this town, people like the bakery owner were at most in their thirties or forties. Compared to the entire lifespan, you could call the thirties or forties adolescence, yet the people in the small town felt a special affection for Soran.
Indeed, it was affection.
Under normal circumstances, it's hard for people in their prime to have the infinite tolerance of the elderly towards children. This affection likely originated from the previous generation living here, people of the old lady's age.
