"Oh my… I'm so thirsty."
After a long day of work, I had finally arrived in Backwater City. It was nighttime, and I could see that the city center was bustling with life, even from the outskirts.
Compared to the busy city center, the area where I was standing was quite deserted. But there were still people on the streets. Beggars, prostitutes, and, of course, thieves.
The rest of the people who lived around there and wanted nothing to do with the nightlife shut themselves inside their homes, but I could still hear them in there.
"It's hard to get used to big cities," I said to myself. "If this were a small town in the countryside, people would already be asleep."
That place was very different from where I had grown up. I was born and raised in a small town in a nation to the west of this Ashia. Although people could get pretty loud during festivals, it was certainly a quieter place.
"Why am I thinking about that place?"
