"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
was already inevitable, but couldn't bring himself to stop protesting,
with your sword! What are we
looked at him
"It's just an…"
"...awakened demon, I know!"
shook his head again, feeling like he was
a long 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
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 so desperate to
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
be so willing to risk it? Sunny just couldn't understand that logic. It was irrational and paradoxical! What can be more important
looked Nephis in the eyes and
was no other choice. We were literally stuck on a rock with it. What about now? Don't we have a choice to avoid the Ashen
him for a
the only way
Sunny laughed.
truth,
he wiped the
Alright. That makes sense. But believe me when I say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace Demon… we won't be able
Nephis scowled.
"Your point?"
Sunny spread his hands.
we can't
smile appeared on his
doesn't mean that we can't
Star thought about it, then raised
"You have a plan?"
Sunny shook his head.
on it. However, there's one thing I know
Demon's disturbing, bestial face. In the ensuing silence, Cassie turned her head to face him
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