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:

meant to say is… uh… we've won in the end, didn't we? It was a risk we had to take, and it paid off. We've grown stronger

a feeling that the fight against the Carapace Demon was already inevitable, but couldn't bring himself to

so tall you won't even be able to poke it with your sword! What

and looked at

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

sighed and shook his head again, feeling like he was

him. He had realized 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,

personal demons were especially dreadful. Much more dreadful than the terrifying Carapace Demon, at least. But although Sunny understood that she

rip all the rewards that

be so willing to risk it? Sunny just couldn't understand that

Nephis in the eyes and

centurion, we did so because there was no other choice. We were literally stuck on

for a while and then simply

only

Sunny laughed.

truth, I'll

down, he wiped the corner of his

one who actually saw the Carapace Demon… we won't be able

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

Yes, we can't defeat

appeared on his

doesn't mean that we can't

then raised an

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

entirely. Let me sleep on it. However,

bestial face. In the ensuing silence, Cassie turned her head to face

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