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.

see anything

trying to remember. Then, her face

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

smile appeared on her doll-like face, beaming with so much joy that Sunny couldn’t help but

certain detail of Cassie’s vision. It was that, when talking about

glanced at Nephis, trying to

much emotion, she thought for a

we will go

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breakfast and then spent some time planning for the journey and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In the process, Sunny

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

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

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

out to be completely

bit more and observing their interactions with Cassie, Sunny almost fainted when he

to 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

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

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

her general weirdness, was ultimately

fact, she was just shy and completely

but still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with

not in line with how a protagonist should

the main character of any event. At the center stage, there were always confident, strong people like her and Caster. People like himself and Cassie, on the other hand, were relegated to exist far away

of thought was 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 everything that she had achieved, but with the