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:

to say is… uh… we've won in the end, didn't we? It was a risk we had to take, and it paid off.

already inevitable, but couldn't bring himself to

huge! It's so tall you won't even be able to poke it with your sword! What are we going to do, ask the bastard politely to

and looked

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

and shook his head again, feeling like he

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

was, her personal demons were especially dreadful. Much more dreadful than the terrifying Carapace Demon, at least.

why was she so hellbent on finding that damned human castle, even more so than 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 would frighten most people to death. There were very few

willing to risk it? Sunny just couldn't understand that logic. It was irrational and paradoxical! What can be

Nephis in

did so because there was no other choice. We were literally stuck on a rock with it. What about now? Don't we

for a while and then simply

only way

Sunny laughed.

truth, I'll

his laughter died down, he wiped the corner of

Alright. That makes sense. But believe me when I say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace Demon…

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

misunderstand. Yes, we can't

dark smile appeared on

doesn't mean that we can't kill

thought about it, then raised an eyebrow

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

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

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

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