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.’

existed, then all of their problems would

see anything

frowned, trying to remember.

me through the gates of the castle! That means we will

her doll-like face, beaming with so much joy that

Cassie’s vision. It was that, when talking about reaching the castle, the blind girl only mentioned the two

his head a little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying

much emotion, she thought for a while, and then

we will go

***

was still retreating, they had their breakfast and then spent some time planning for the journey and preparing to abandon

made his head explode from bafflement. That mind-blowing realization had

they first met in front of the Academy’s gates, Sunny had formed a certain impression of the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and the different

speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than they had been planning to. The less she talked, the more she seemed to know. That silent, indifferent

out to be

cool and aloof. After talking to her a bit more

talk to people. Every time she tried to convey something, she would either use the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the sentence and fall silent. Her tone never matched what she was trying to say. Often, she would forget to put correct intonations in her speech, making

Nephis was not in a habit of openly showing her emotions. It’s not that she didn’t have feelings: it’s just that she was really bad at emoting them! As a result, her face always looked

chose to talk as little as possible or not

her general weirdness, was ultimately responsible for creating the false image of a

just shy and completely inept in

Sunny tried with all his might but still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with

the hell? That’s not in line with how a protagonist

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

fact that Changing Star had problems with expressing herself and lacked social skills did not mean that she was not strong. In fact,