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.’

their

see anything

frowned, trying to remember.

leading me through the gates of the castle! That means

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

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

secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to discern if she had picked up

showing much emotion, she thought for a

we will

***

retreating, they had their breakfast and then spent some time planning for the journey and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In the process, Sunny had a chance to get to know

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

a certain impression of the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and the different revelations about Changing Star’s past

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

out to be completely

more and observing their interactions with Cassie, Sunny

the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the sentence and fall silent. Her tone never matched

that she didn’t have feelings: it’s just that she was really bad at emoting them! As a result, her face always looked cold and

talk as little as possible or not to talk at

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

just shy and completely inept in

all his might but still failed to stop himself from staring

in line with how

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

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