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.'

their problems would be solved. Sunny cleared

see

frowned, trying to remember. Then, her

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

with so much joy

that, when talking about reaching the castle, the blind girl only mentioned

head a little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to discern if she had picked up on that little discrepancy,

was as enigmatic as ever. Without showing much emotion, she thought for a while, and

we will

***

they had their breakfast and then spent some time planning for the journey and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In the process,

realization, which almost made his head explode from bafflement.

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

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 to. The less she talked, the more she seemed to know.

out

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

would either use the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the sentence and fall silent. Her

of openly showing her emotions. It's not that she didn't have feelings: it's just that

she simply chose to talk as little as possible or not

up together, then multiplied by her general weirdness, was ultimately

was just shy and

himself from staring at Nephis with wide eyes. He

hell? That's not in line with how a protagonist should

main character of any event. At the center stage, there were always confident,

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 opposite. She still achieved everything that she had achieved, but with the

She was still dangerous.