Shadow Slave

Chapter 55

When they returned to the makeshift camp, the first thing that Nephis did was come up to Cassie.

“Hey, Cas. Guess what.”

The blind girl turned to her and smiled:

“You’ve finally received an armor-type Memory?”

Simultaneously, Nephis said:

“I found something decent to wear…”

Then she fell silent and stared at her smiling friend. Cassie laughed:

“The sound of your footsteps changed.”

Changing Star blinked.

“Ah. I see. Well… it’s from the Carapace Centurion.”

While she was describing the armor to Cassia and letting her touch the mysterious white metal it was forged out of, Sunny relaxed and rested by the fire.

Some time later, Nephis was busy preparing dinner. Sunny was once again lying lazily on the stones and staring into the sky.

The sky, like always, was grey and unfriendly.

With all three of them equipped with decent armor, they were finally starting to resemble a real Awakened cohort. In fact, Sunny thought that their group was rather eye-catching even by Awakened standards.

In her light tunic and sea-wave cloak, beautiful and delicate Cassie looked like a princess. Lithe and poised, Nephis was like a noble knight tasked with protecting her. Sunny, however…

If he was generous to himself, he would say that he looked like a young squire.

But truthfully, he resembled a page boy a lot more — at best. If a random stranger were to see the three of them, that stranger would most likely assume that Sunny was either a lowly servant or a feeble ruffian that had been captured by the noble lady’s guard.

add to their surprise when I

would he

cares. I’m sure there’ll be a

side. Sunny turned his head, looking at the blind girl with a bit of

She bit her lip.

that you almost died

what

He shrugged.

“Yeah.”

silent sigh, Sunny

it too much. It’s not my first brush

knew, the closest. The memory still sent shivers running down his

for a while.

“I’m sorry.”

Sunny raised his eyebrows.

What are you

girl lowered her

“For being so useless.”

away. A second or two later, he said in his

“You’re not useless.”

Cassie softly chuckled.

to walk, I need to be leashed to you or Neph. If I want to eat, I need to wait for one of you to feed me. That’s my life now. I can’t do even the simplest of things without your help… let alone be of use to either of you

raw with emotion. This was the first time Sunny had seen her mask of resolve slip a little,

have I ever told you about

shook her head. Sunny half-closed his

Chained, bleeding, defenseless. What’s worse, my Aspect turned out to be completely

slightly, visibly drawn in by his

Did things change

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