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.'

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

see

trying to remember. Then,

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

with so much joy that Sunny couldn't help

was that, when talking about reaching

little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to discern if she

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

Then we will

***

and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In the process,

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 and the different revelations about

speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than they had been planning to. The less she

impression turned out to be completely

more and

words or stumble in the middle of the sentence and fall silent. Her tone never matched what she was trying

emotions. It's not that she didn't have feelings: it's

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

just shy

his might but still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with wide eyes. He just barely managed to not let his jaw

That's not in line

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

wrong. The fact that Changing Star had problems with expressing herself and lacked social skills did not mean that she was

She was still dangerous.