A year passed since Sam started this vacation in which he fought different people. On the journey, he saw a lot of people apart from the one he fought.

He saw the life of normal people without any form of great responsibilities burdening them living their lives.

He saw people who have too much burden on them to carry it alone smilingly carry it.

In both his lives, Sam is not a 'normal' person. He has very limited emotions and he was exposed to very few of them. In both of his lives, he was in a race to gain more power, more recognition, more safety. He never stopped to think about what it is doing to his mental state.

He knew that in his current condition, he wouldn't lose that easily, but his mind doesn't change and it hinders his growth when he needed to grow the most? This is the question that came to his mind when he found out about his own inferiority complex when he lost to Gran and tamas.

He wanted to find an answer for that and that is why he took a vacation.

He wanted to not only find out all the flaws he has and also tried to eradicate them. He must say that he achieved great progress.

He managed to identify, the inferiority complex, the fear of being suppressed, his fear of being a puppet to someone else, his fear of being the weakest in the game, even his obsession with the research can only be considered as an escape for him to forget about these weaknesses and most dangerous of these mental weaknesses is his sensitivity to his birth status.

Being a bastard an abandoned one at that never sat well with him. Because every person who tortured him in order to train or for other purposes never stopped to mention it.

It was hammered into his very being and he believed that all the suffering he went through is because he was an abandoned bastard.

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The rational part of his brain knew that it is not true. He suffered because he fell into the wrong side by accident. The birth might have some reason for it, but it is not the only reason.

Stella tried her best to make him understand that. But that didn't happen. He wasn't able to break out of that shell and that shell followed him even in this life.

In this journey, he wanted to get rid of that too, but it seems like the damage is too severe that it is almost impossible to change.

Sam is currently sitting on the peak of the mountain meditating. He opened his eyes and sighed.

Nali is standing beside him.

"AAAhh."

He shrieked in fright as soon as Sam moved.

Sam sighed once again and said.

"Don't