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:

uh… we've won in the end, didn't we? It was a risk

the Carapace Demon was already inevitable, but couldn't

be able to poke it with your sword! What are we going to do, ask the

frowned and looked

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

feeling like

a deep dark well hidden behind her seemingly radiant exterior. No one pushed themselves that hard, endured that much, went that far unless they were being pursued by demons of

judging by how far ahead of everyone he had ever known Nephis was, her 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

to come back to reality and rip all the rewards that the world owed him was so intense that it would frighten most people to death. There were

only had meaning for as long as he stayed alive. Nephis, on the 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!

Nephis in

choice. We were literally stuck on a rock with it. What about now? Don't we have a choice to avoid

for a while

only

Sunny laughed.

the truth, I'll

laughter died down, he wiped the corner of his

one who

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

Yes, we can't defeat

smile appeared on his

mean that we

thought about it, then raised

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

entirely. Let me sleep on it. However, there's one thing

disturbing, bestial face. In the ensuing silence, Cassie turned her head to face him and asked

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