Ray strolled casually into the villa complex. He headed straight for where the fruit tree was.

Before long, he stopped.

Huh? Wasn't Dakota supposed to be just some nobody? How could he afford to live in a place like this?

Then it hit him—if Dakota could move from the slums to a villa, why couldn't the evolution tree move too?

So just because the tree was here didn't mean this was where Dakota started out.

He smiled. Not that it mattered anyway.

He stood under the tree. It wasn't tall—maybe