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.'

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

see anything

to remember.

through the gates of the castle! That means we

doll-like face, beaming with so much joy that Sunny

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

head a little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to

ever. Without showing much emotion, she

we will

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preparing to abandon the

almost made his head explode from bafflement. That mind-blowing realization had to do

of the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and the different revelations about

and strange speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than

impression turned out to

bit more and observing their interactions with Cassie, Sunny almost fainted when he realized that Nephis was simply an incredibly,

she would either use the wrong words 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

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

chose to talk as little as possible or not to talk

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

in fact, she was just shy and completely

with all his might but still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with

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

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 Cassie, on the other hand, were relegated to exist far away

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 was still dangerous.