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        Ninety-nine years had passed. Other birds and animals made their nests and caves in the forest, and sometimes they still met people who were searching for the tower. Among them, some were for a nonexistent princess, but some were for a shelter. As time went by, fewer and fewer people came to the tower.

        However, around towns, it was still said that there was a tower in the nearby forest.