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

against the Carapace Demon was already inevitable, but couldn't bring

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

looked at him with

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

and shook his head again, feeling like he was talking to a

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, went that far unless they were being pursued by demons of their own…

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

desire to come back to reality and rip all the rewards that the world owed him was so intense that

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? Sunny just couldn't understand that logic. It was irrational and paradoxical! What can be more important than your life?

in the eyes and

no other choice. We were literally

stared at him for a while and then

the only way

Sunny laughed.

truth, I'll

wiped the corner of

sense. But believe me when I say it, as the only one who actually saw the Carapace Demon… we won't be able to defeat it in a

Nephis scowled.

"Your point?"

Sunny spread his hands.

we can't defeat

dark smile appeared

doesn't mean that we

then raised an eyebrow and

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

Let me sleep on it. However, there's one thing I know

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

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