Shadow Slave

In the ensuing silence, the smile slowly disappeared from Cassie’s face, replaced by confusion. Feeling the sudden tension, she asked:

“Uh… what’s wrong?”

Sunny sighed.

“No, nothing is wrong. It’s just that that direction is the one we wanted to avoid.”

After some thought, he added:

“That’s where I came from yesterday. There’s a lot of scavengers down there.”

The blind girl’s face fell.

“Oh.”

Nephis, who was quietly listening to them, gave him an indecipherable look and finally spoke:

“Tell us more about the castle.”

A shadow of the previous excitement returned to Cassie’s eyes. With a serious nod, she began describing her vision.

“I dreamt of a vast, ruined city built of weathered stone. It was surrounded by tall, impregnable walls. Various monsters were wandering its narrow streets. In the center of the city, the was a hill, and on that hill stood a magnificent castle.”

She smiled.

“But there were no monsters in the castle! Instead, it was full of people. I think… no, I’m sure that they were Awakened. Some were guarding the walls, some were going about their lives without a care in the world. There was food, safety, and laughter!”

‘Well, that sounds great.’

really existed, then all of their problems would be solved. Sunny

you see anything

remember. Then, her face

saw Sunny leading me through the gates of the castle! That means we

so much joy

he was stuck on a certain detail of Cassie’s vision. It was that, when talking about reaching the castle, the blind girl

trying to discern if she had picked up on that little

enigmatic as ever. Without showing much emotion, she thought for a while, and then

we will

***

journey and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In the process, Sunny had a chance to get

that he came to a sudden realization, which almost made his head

gates, Sunny had formed a certain impression of the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and the different revelations about Changing Star’s past only served to reinforce that

made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled,

out to be completely

talking to her a bit more and observing their interactions with Cassie, Sunny almost fainted when he realized that Nephis was simply an incredibly,

use the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the sentence

not that she didn’t have feelings: it’s just that she was really bad at emoting them! As a result,

chose to talk as little

general weirdness, was

was just shy and completely

to that realization, Sunny tried with all his might but still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with wide eyes. He just barely

That’s not in line with how a

of any event. At the center stage, there were always confident, strong people like her and Caster. People like

also wrong. The fact that Changing Star had problems with expressing herself and lacked social skills did not mean that she was not strong. In fact, it might have meant the opposite. She still achieved