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. Sunny cleared

see anything

frowned, trying to remember. Then, her

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

beaming with so much joy that Sunny couldn't help but curl his

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

his head a little and secretly glanced at Nephis, trying to

Without showing much emotion, she thought for a

we will go

***

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

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

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

unnerved and rattled, often

out

being cool and aloof. After talking to her a bit more and

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 silent. Her tone never matched what she was trying to say. Often, she

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

why, most of the time, she simply chose to talk as little as possible or not to talk

then multiplied by her general weirdness, was ultimately responsible for creating

she was just shy and completely inept in communicating with

failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with wide

That's not in line with how

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

line of 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 added

She was still dangerous.