The octogenarian seemed to feel once again the emotions he had experienced over sixty years ago when, for the first time, he ventured out alone with his family's allotted funds to independently run a business. Young and inevitably, he failed, ultimately returning home destitute and forlorn. The old man remembered arriving back in his hometown and feeling exactly as he did now, filled with a sense of grievance and yearning, wanting nothing more than to hurry back to his home, yet paradoxically, he lingered outside the town the entire afternoon, unable to take a single step inside. Now the Old Marquis found those feelings returning, urgently wanting to awaken his old friend, to embrace him tightly, to share his longing and remorse. Yet, an unexplainable dread filled the old man's heart, leaving him torn.