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 off.

fight against the Carapace Demon was already inevitable,

it's huge! It's so tall you won't even be able to poke it with your sword! What are we going to

looked at him

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

his head again, feeling

well hidden behind her seemingly radiant exterior. No one pushed themselves

were especially dreadful. Much more dreadful than the terrifying Carapace Demon, at least. But although Sunny

the rewards

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! What can be more important than your life? If you

in the eyes and

were literally stuck on a rock with it. What about now? Don't we

for a while and

only

Sunny laughed.

truth, I'll

down, he wiped the corner of his eye and

I say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

misunderstand. Yes, we can't

appeared on his

doesn't mean that we can't kill

it, then raised an eyebrow and

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

me sleep on it. However, there's one thing I know for

the ensuing silence, Cassie

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