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:

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

fight against the Carapace Demon was already

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

and looked at him with

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

head again, feeling like

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

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

all the rewards that the world owed him was so intense that it would frighten most people to death. There were very few things that he wasn't willing

meaning for as long as he stayed alive. Nephis, 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?

Nephis in the

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

at him for a

only

Sunny laughed.

truth, I'll give

down, he wiped the corner of his eye

when I say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace Demon… we

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

we can't defeat

dark smile appeared on

mean that we

thought about it, then

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

it. However, there's one thing I know

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

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