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.’

of their problems would be

you see

remember. Then, her

leading me through the gates of the

so much joy that Sunny couldn’t help

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

little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to discern if

Without showing much emotion, she thought for

we will go

***

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

came to a sudden realization, which almost made his head explode from bafflement. That mind-blowing realization had to

certain impression of the confident,

strange speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than they had been planning to. The less she

turned out to be completely

and aloof. After talking to her a bit more and

would either use the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the

many introverted people, 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,

why, most of the time, she simply chose to talk as little

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

just shy and completely

his might but still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with wide eyes. He just barely managed to not let his jaw

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

Nephis had definitely been the type of person to be the main character of any event. At the center stage, there were always confident, strong people like her and Caster. People like himself

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 everything that she