Outside, the glass and silvery steel buildings had that thin gold autumn light reflecting off of them, the clouds filtering the light and gaining a light yellow color, moving fast. The whole residential district washed pale and clean. Somewhere behind him a window opened, and Hikari's voice came down after him telling him to eat something that wasn't from a cart vendor, and he raised a hand without turning round.
His head was empty of city information. His hands didn't ache. Nobody was in trouble, nothing needed carrying, and for the first time since a rooftop in Ukai, Raizen walked down his own street with nothing whatsoever weighing on him.
The library was the coward's route and Raizen took it without shame.
