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

you see

trying to remember. Then,

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

doll-like face, beaming with so much joy that Sunny couldn't help but

about reaching the castle, the blind girl only mentioned the two of them. Was there

trying to discern if she had picked up on that little

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

we will

***

spent some time planning for the journey and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In

to a sudden realization, which almost made his head explode from

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

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. That silent, indifferent

turned out to be

the 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 that Nephis

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

showing her emotions. It's not that she

of the time, she simply chose to talk as little

together, then multiplied by her general weirdness, was ultimately responsible for creating the false image of a

in fact, she was just shy and completely inept

coming to that realization, Sunny tried with all his might but still failed to stop himself from staring

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

there were always confident, strong people like her and Caster. People like himself and Cassie, on

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,

She was still dangerous.