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.'

this castle really existed, then all of their problems would

you see

to remember. Then, her face

the gates

brilliant smile appeared on her doll-like face, beaming with so

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

secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to discern if

Star, however, was as enigmatic as ever. Without showing much emotion,

we

***

still 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 the girls a

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

the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and the different

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 to. The less she talked,

that impression turned out

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

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

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

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

of that added up together, then multiplied by her general weirdness, was ultimately responsible for creating the false image of a mysterious, unapproachable ice

just shy and completely inept

his might but still failed to stop himself from staring at

not in line with

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 and

problems with expressing herself and lacked social skills did not mean that she was not strong. In fact, it might have meant the

She was still dangerous.