Especially considering there's enough that happens there to fill up an entire chapter, maybe even more.
Why? MC runs from everything, gets the odd skill, and becomes ever more mopey with a side order of PTSD.
I also genuinely don't understand how the original disposable childhood friend was allowed to simply live at home, freely available to every bloody nutcase or religious zealot in the world after being revealed as one of a thousand "chosen" in a glorfied Big Brother house.
That level of instant fame/notoriety would have seen "accidents" happen to those people within a day, with a potential bloodbath if that transfer-on-death rumour proved to be true.
Hell... with humanity being what it is, being one of those 1000 would have been a literal death sentence for most. Well before those 6 months were up.
But hey... must have a Plot Vehicle...