Shadow Slave

A few minutes later, Sunny heard a noise coming from somewhere above. Looking in that direction, he noticed that Cassie was standing at the edge of the wide branch, gripping the golden rope in her hands.

Before he could react, the blind girl was already climbing down. She was very cautious, but also quite nimble for someone without sight.

He blinked.

'Is she crazy? That's dangerous!'

But he was worried for nothing. Cassie quickly reached the ground and let go of the rope, safe and sound. She then summoned her staff and took a hesitant step, trying to remember where his shout had come from.

Sunny made his presence known and guided her by saying:

"I'm here!"

The blind girl turned her head in his direction and walked forward, carefully feeling the ground in front of her with the staff. Because of how uneven the surface of the island had become, it took her longer than usual to reach him.

Just as she was about to walk past, Sunny spoke again:

"Hey, Cas."

Cassie stopped and lowered her head with a surprised expression. Then, she asked:

"Why are you lying on the ground?"

He smiled weakly.

"Ah, it's very comfortable."

Suddenly, the blind girl frowned and asked in a worried tone:

"Are you hurt?"

Sunny shook his head with a sigh. His sense of humor was not always appreciated. In fact, it had often landed him in hot water in the past.

"Just bruised all over. Nothing serious. I'm just really tired… that one was really intense."

Since Cassie was still frowning, he thought for a moment and added:

"Neph is also fine. She's resting a bit further away."

Finally, the delicate girl relaxed. Her face cleared, and she offered him a hesitant smile.

"You really killed that demon?"

Sunny cast a gaze at the giant corpse and closed his eyes.

"Yeah. He's very dead."

Both of them were silent for some time. Sunny was on the verge of falling asleep when Cassie carefully asked:

going to

opened his eyes and blinked, trying to remember what was

are things we

plan, race to the top of the hill, climb the great tree, hide themselves in its branches, risk

rest yet. They had to take basic precautions,

hand on it, he walked over to

with a tired

"Good morning."

polite smile. However, today it did not

out of ten.

in a circle, passing around the glass bottle full of cold, refreshing water. Sunny was in the middle of describing their fight with

struck at the weakened patch of armor on the demon's chest, the one you told us

not seem surprised at the mention of Changing Star's new trick. Either she knew all along because Nephis had told her, or she saw

demon was already severely wounded from his fight with the… the thing from the sea, so it

shook her

awakened demon! I thought that

Nephis corrected her:

your vision and advice, we wouldn't

lowered her face, a little

it doesn't

one girl to another, then finally turned to

But, anyway… I promised to cook demon meat for

already tasting the juicy, tender meat in his mouth. However, Cassie suddenly frowned, a

I don't

He raised his eyebrows.

"What? Why?"

She lingered before answering.

intelligent creature. Even if it was evil. I didn't think about

it either. In retrospect, the idea of making steaks out of a creature whose intelligence was comparable to theirs did seem a little wrong. Even if that creature

things worked in the Dream Realm. Monsters devoured humans, and humans devoured monsters. It was the

Creatures were universally insane and obsessed with murder and destruction, just like he was, there were also other

terrifying monsters of the dark sea, he did not hesitate to stand

educate me on the ethics of eating your enemies?

Cassie blushed

know it seems ridiculous, but that's just how I feel.

Sunny shook his head.

understand… sort of. It's just that we didn't bring any supplies with us, so we won't be able

blind girl sighed. Then, her

the great tree's fruits? I

at

"Are you serious?"

confused by

"Uh… yes? Why?"

blinked a couple

magnificent and pretty, but it's also very strange and suspicious. Why is it able to grow here when nothing else can? I'm pretty sure that it's the reason why all