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.'

existed, then all of their

see

frowned, trying to remember. Then, her face

Sunny leading me through the gates of the castle! That means we will make

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

vision. It was that, when talking about reaching the castle, the blind girl only mentioned the

his head a little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying

much emotion, she thought for a while, and then slowly

Then we

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the journey and preparing to

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

Sunny had formed a certain impression of the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and

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

turned out

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

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 to put correct intonations

that was the fact that, like many introverted people, Nephis 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 cold and

chose to talk as little as possible

was ultimately responsible

just shy and

stop himself from staring at Nephis with wide eyes. He just barely managed to not

hell? That's not in line with how

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 the background. Now,

social skills did not mean that she was not strong. In fact, it might have meant the opposite. She still achieved everything that she had

She was still dangerous.