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.’

then all of their problems would be solved. Sunny cleared his

you see anything

remember. Then,

the gates of the castle! That means we will

with so much joy that Sunny couldn’t

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

at Nephis, trying to discern if she had picked

as ever. Without showing much emotion,

we will go

***

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

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

in front of the Academy’s gates, Sunny had formed a certain impression of the confident, distant girl. Later,

made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than

out to be completely

behind the matter had nothing to do with being cool and aloof. After talking to her a bit more and observing their interactions with Cassie, Sunny almost fainted when he realized that Nephis was

the sentence and fall silent. Her tone never matched what

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

chose to talk as

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

in fact, she was just shy and completely inept in

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

line with how

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 and Cassie, on the other hand, were relegated to exist far away in

that line 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