Shadow Slave

Chapter 39

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.'

all of their problems would be solved. Sunny

see anything

remember. Then, her face

gates of

smile appeared on her doll-like face, beaming with so much joy that Sunny couldn't

was that, when talking about reaching the castle, the

his head a little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to discern if she had

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

we will

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preparing to

he came to a sudden realization, which almost made his head

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

strange speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved

impression turned out

her a bit more and observing their interactions with Cassie, Sunny almost fainted when he realized that Nephis was

was as though she had no idea how to talk to people. Every time she tried to convey something, she would either use the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the sentence and fall

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

she simply chose to talk as little as possible or

by her general weirdness, was ultimately responsible for creating the false image of a mysterious, unapproachable ice

fact, she was just shy and completely inept in communicating with

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

in line

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

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.

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