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:

won in the end, didn't we? It was a risk we had to take, and it paid

against the Carapace Demon was already inevitable,

be able to poke it with your sword! What are we going

looked

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

head again, feeling like he was talking to a stone

time ago that there was 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 their own…

terrifying Carapace Demon, at least. But although Sunny understood that she was running from something, he had no idea

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

her life. Why else would she be so willing to risk it? Sunny just couldn't understand that logic. It was

Nephis in the eyes

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

for a while and then

only

Sunny laughed.

is the truth, I'll

his laughter died down, he wiped

But believe me when I say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

Yes, we can't defeat it.

smile appeared

that

then

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

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

ensuing silence, Cassie turned her head to face him

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