What is my life leading up to?

Genuinely.

Is everything just paused because the demon’s gone?

I can’t do this forever.

I’ve always been hoping…

“Maybe I’ll find a purpose in another town.”

“Maybe I’ll go to the big city!”

“Maybe I’ll find someone in another place!”

But…

There is no other place.

There is no city.

There is no “other town.”

This is all I have.

I’ll never use my skills I learn from school for something that matters.

I’ll never be able to show my music to the whole world…

Wait.

What if I treated this like a video game?

Maybe….

If I progress the story…. I’ll unlock a new area.

Maybe there is another town….

I just haven’t unlocked it yet!

Carol talked to me yesterday.

She’s pissed I abandoned the plan…

But I told her without the soul… there is no plan.

She bursted into tears…

I feel so bad for her… but the end she wants does not justify what she wants to do.

About Noelle.

She seems extremely bored with everything…

What if me and Susie showed her Castle Town?

She’s always had escapes, just like I do…

It would be new….. it would be like the “other town” we tried to visit.

But then she’d be in danger.

I need some time to think about this….

I can’t decide anything until after the festival.