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:

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

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

It's so tall you won't even be able to poke it with your sword! What are we going

frowned and looked at him with

"It's just an…"

"...awakened demon, I know!"

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

was still a mystery to 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… he knew that from

far 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

was she so hellbent on finding that damned human castle, even more so than Sunny himself? His burning desire to come back to reality and rip all the rewards that the world owed him

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

in the

did so because there was no other choice. We were literally stuck on a rock with

at him for a while and

the only way

Sunny laughed.

truth, I'll give

down, he wiped the corner of his

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.

Yes, we can't defeat it.

appeared

doesn't mean that

thought about it, then raised an

"You have a plan?"

Sunny shook his head.

not entirely. Let me sleep on it. However, there's one thing I

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

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