Shadow Slave

Chapter 64

"Let me guess. You want to kill it…"

Nephis continued to stare at him with her usual unreadable expression. After a while, Sunny chuckled and shook his head in disbelief.

"You really are crazy. That's… that's an awakened demon we're talking about, remember? Have you forgotten that we're just Sleepers?"

Then he frowned and scratched his head.

"W—wait a second. I feel like we already had this conversation before. Doesn't it feel familiar?"

Cassie glanced at the two of them and politely cleared her throat.

"Actually, you had said pretty much the exact same thing right before we decided to attack that first carapace centurion."

Sunny beamed.

"Yes! Exactly! And how did that end up? I almost got killed!"

Nephis shrugged indifferently.

"You survived, didn't you?"

He froze with his mouth open, too flabbergasted by the sheer audacity of her remark to answer immediately. A few seconds later, Sunny was finally able to speak again.

"That's not the point!"

Cassie gently touched her friend on the shoulder and whispered.

"Neph! That's not a very nice thing to say."

Changing Star's face flushed a little. Glancing aside, she hesitated and said:

was a risk we had to take, and it paid

had a feeling that the fight against the Carapace Demon was already inevitable, but couldn't bring himself to stop

able to poke it with your sword! What are we going to do, ask the bastard politely to lower itself to our

frowned and looked

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

sighed and shook his head again, feeling like he was talking

mind was still a mystery to him. He had realized a long time ago that there was a deep dark well hidden behind her seemingly radiant exterior. No one pushed themselves that hard, endured that much,

personal demons were especially dreadful. Much more dreadful than the terrifying Carapace Demon, at least. But although Sunny understood that she was running from something, he had no idea what destination she was so

Sunny himself? His burning desire to come back to reality and rip all the rewards that the world owed him was so intense that it

other hand, seemed to pursue a goal that held more meaning than her life. Why else would she be so willing to risk it? Sunny just couldn't understand that logic. It was irrational and paradoxical! What can be more important than your life? If you die, you won't be able to enjoy the fruits of your

looked Nephis in

there was no other choice. We were literally stuck on a rock with it. What about now? Don't we have a choice to avoid the

at him for a while

only way

Sunny laughed.

truth, I'll give you

his laughter died down, he wiped the corner of his eye and

say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace Demon… we won't be able to defeat it in

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

we can't defeat it.

smile appeared on

doesn't mean that we can't kill

Star thought about it, then raised an

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

not entirely. Let me sleep on it. However, there's

Demon's disturbing, bestial face. In the ensuing silence, Cassie turned her head to face him

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