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. We've grown

already inevitable, but couldn't bring himself to stop protesting, solely out of

poke it with your sword! What are we going

and looked at him with

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

feeling like he was talking to

was a deep dark well hidden behind her seemingly radiant exterior. No one pushed themselves that hard, endured

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

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

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

looked Nephis in the eyes and

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

a while and then

only

Sunny laughed.

the truth, I'll give

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

I say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace Demon… we won't be

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

misunderstand. Yes, we can't defeat

dark smile appeared on his

mean that we

then raised an eyebrow

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

sleep on it. However,

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

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