"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:
we? It was a risk we had to take, and it paid off. We've grown
Demon was already inevitable, but couldn't bring himself to stop protesting, solely out
be able to poke it with your
frowned and looked at him with
"It's just an…"
"...awakened demon, I know!"
shook his head again, feeling like he was talking to
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
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
His burning desire to come back to reality and rip all the rewards that the world owed him was
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? If you die, you won't be able to
looked Nephis in the eyes and
choice. We were literally stuck on a rock with it. What about now? Don't we have a choice to avoid the
for a while and then simply
the only way
Sunny laughed.
the truth,
he wiped the corner of his eye and
the only one who actually saw the Carapace Demon…
Nephis scowled.
"Your point?"
Sunny spread his hands.
Yes, we can't
appeared on
doesn't mean that we can't kill
Star thought about it, then raised an eyebrow and
"You have a plan?"
Sunny shook his head.
yet, not entirely. Let me sleep on it. However, there's one thing I
face. In the ensuing silence, Cassie turned her head to face him and asked
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