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The solitude of his journey was something that he had expected to be tormenting and boring. 

And it was. 

Yet, what he hadn't expected it to be was soothing.

While he wasn't truly all alone by himself due to the nations that he visited and the monsters and beasts that he had run into, the times when he was by himself, felt like it was relaxing and calming.

Until, of course, he got bored and yearned for some company.

He has rarely spent this much time by himself when he wasn't training. And training simply took every ounce of his mental and physical energy. Thus, it was neither boring nor soothing. It was painful yet exhilarating and euphoric.

The purposeless solitude he experienced now was unlike anything he had experienced before.

"When was the last time that I was by myself while also not entirely buried in training?" he wondered aloud.