【Gomón still broke his vow and taught Roja and Tengu how to build a place to sleep with garbage, and he also stayed with them.】
【As night fell, lying on the hard ground paved with discarded bricks, the stench in the air was far more pungent than in the Border Town, and Gomón couldn't sleep.】
【Even he himself wondered why he had returned to this place, to this filthy place, like a fool.】
【Perhaps it was when that special young man walked towards the garbage mountain, when he reached into the pile of garbage, when he really settled in this garbage dump.】
【Perhaps these actions made Gomón think, with a ridiculous notion, that this boy could truly change the world.】
【“What a joke.” Gomón said to himself with a self-deprecating laugh.】
【Then, after tossing and turning for a long time, a very soft murmur came out: “Let’s just see what happens.”】
【The next morning, Roja and Tengu got up. They wandered around the Uncertain Object Terminal without a clear destination, Roja still holding his signature paper and pen, recording something.】
【This continued for the next few days. Gomón didn't expect that the noble child he thought he was could persevere for so long.】
【His decent clothes were slightly tattered, and his face and hands had become a bit dirty.】
【This is the Uncertain Object Terminal. Here, there is no concept of clean and tidy. The longer you stay, the closer you get to garbage.】
【But even so, Roja and Tengu persevered.】
【They investigated in this harsh environment, going to the deepest depths to experience the lives of the people in the Uncertain Object Terminal.】
Seeing them go from clean and tidy, bright and beautiful, to disheveled and grimy.
The people in the chatroom didn’t feel disgusted or contemptuous, instead, they only felt admiration, and a considerable number of them felt respect.
“I’m not as good as him.”
Long sighed heavily.
This wasn’t a competitive mentality, but Long’s own shame.
He always believed he was a down-to-earth, bottom-level person, and that he brought change to this world.
But compared to Roja, he was far too lacking.
The Goya Kingdom was his hometown.
He had lived here for nearly thirty years and should understand it better than anyone else.
But what was the reality?
He had done nothing for this country.
He knew about the darkness of this country, but he only stood at a high vantage point, overlooking the land below.
He had not experienced it personally.
He had passed by the Uncertain Object Terminal countless times, but he never stayed there, lived there, investigated, or researched.
What he did was many years later.
When the Goya Kingdom’s rulers burned the Uncertain Object Terminal, he stood up and took away the so-called freedom seekers.
It seemed that he never understood the thoughts of the people in the Uncertain Object Terminal from beginning to end, nor did he think about how to change it.
He saw the manifestation of darkness, while Roja chose to delve into the essence of darkness and the solutions to solve it.
Tengu: I envy the me in that world who could follow such a person.
Garp: If someone really could reach such a level, it would be natural to follow them.
Bartholomew Kuma: What will he do to change this country?
Kuma had been to the Uncertain Object Terminal in the Goya Kingdom. It was completely rotten, under the rule of the rulers.
He wanted to see what Roja would do in the face of this situation.
Even Dragon and the others who were stronger than him back then couldn’t change this. Could Roja, who was weaker than them, really change this?
【Ten days later, at dawn, Roja and Tengu went to the beach and washed themselves thoroughly with water.】
【“Are you finally leaving?” Gomón, who had gone from being a small thug to a dirty, nasty mess, asked.】
【For these ten days, he had also followed Roja, never leaving the Uncertain Object Terminal.】
【Now, seeing Roja and Tengu clean themselves, disappointment appeared in his eyes.】
【“Well, this place has always been a garbage dump anyway, and nobody pays attention to it. Honestly, I’m already surprised you managed to stay for ten days.”】
【“What are you talking about, Gomón?” Roja raised the notebook in his hand and said with a smile, “Our investigation here is almost finished. The next step is transformation.”】
【“Transformation? You want to transform this place?” Gomón asked in surprise.】
【“It’s us, we are going to transform this place.” Roja pointed at himself and Tengu, then at Gomón, and finally at the entire Uncertain Object Terminal.】
【“The power of an individual is limited, while the power of the masses is infinite. The transformation of a place relies on much more than just individual strength.”】
【“I’ll leave it to you, Ichiro-sensei.” Roja said to Tengu.】
【“Don’t worry, I’ll handle it.” Tengu waved his staff-sword, a patch of brick and stone flew up, supporting him as he flew towards the Corbo Mountains.】
【“Let’s go.” Roja said to Gomón after Tengu left.】
【“Where?” Gomón was still stunned.】
【“To mobilize the masses.” Roja said with a smile.】
【As he said this, he pulled out a large plastic board he had prepared from somewhere, threw it to Gomón, and walked towards the edge of the terminal.】
【Gomón took the plastic board and looked at it. He saw a few large characters simply written on it: ‘Cleaning up garbage gets you meat.’】
【“What does this mean?” Gomón was dumbfounded.】
【“It means exactly what it says.” Roja said as he walked, “Anyone who comes with me gets meat.”】
【The terminal was actually quite large. When Roja had overlooked it before, it was almost half the size of the capital city.】
【Now, with Roja’s shouting, one by one, dirty people emerged from the pile of garbage.】
【They weren’t strangers to Roja. For these ten days, the surrounding people had gotten to know Roja and Tengu, this pair of freaks.】
【These two came from outside, were very strong, yet lived in the garbage dump.】
【Out of trust in Roja’s strength, quite a few people who made a living from the garbage pile followed him.】
【They didn’t crave a piece of meat. For them, being able to eat a clean, warm meal would already be a very good thing.】
【As Roja’s shouts continued as he walked, a large number of people gathered behind him within a short time.】
【And they, following Roja, continued to the outskirts of the terminal, near the Corbo Mountains.】