Log Horizon: Three Thousand Miles from Home

I meant to speak of when we would meet again, but before I could say a word, my springlike face crumpled with sobs.

For Tang Xiu, waking from a dream had never seemed so near, nor so far away.

Was this all a dream of the Southern Branch?

Or a thoughtless joke?

I want to go home, I want to go home.

I want to stay by his side.

This stubborn longing tortures Tang Xiu's heart day after day.

But in the end, how could this long-awaited road home be anything but painful?

After all the world's affairs have come to pass, and the water can no longer be gathered up, only the shadows of the day settle, while the lamp burns on forever.