As much as I would've wanted to hit the road for a good while, our next stop was only a 15-minute drive. It was toward my old school, The Three Angels' Message University—someplace where I had a lot of good and bad memories from the three and a half years I was there. So all in all, it was a well-balanced part of my life.
On that note, actually cucking Lopez was just a side quest while the main ones were to actually find out what was up and somehow form more connections with people that were surviving the end of the world—and possibly see old friends other than Ken.
It's not like I would be able to fuse or summon something powerful from forming these connections but what I learned late in my life was that social connections were just as important as actual skills to move up in life.