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.’

castle really existed, then all of their problems would be solved.

you see

trying to remember. Then,

saw Sunny leading me through the gates

with so much joy that Sunny couldn’t help but

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

trying to discern if she had picked up on that little discrepancy,

enigmatic as ever. Without showing much emotion, she thought for

Then we

***

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

then that he came to a sudden realization, which almost made his head explode

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

to exist a bit apart from the world. She was mysterious, aloof and rather cool. Her taciturn character and strange speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than they had been planning

turned out to

cool and aloof. After talking to her a bit more and observing their interactions with Cassie, Sunny almost fainted when he

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

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

why, most of the time, she simply chose to talk as little as possible or not

together, then multiplied by her general weirdness, was ultimately responsible for creating the false image of a

was just shy

stop himself from

line with

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

and lacked social skills did not mean that she was not strong. In fact, it might