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:

you're just going to

trying to remember what was

are things we have

of the hill, climb the great tree, hide themselves in its branches, risk their lives to set the demon on fire, not to mention the… all the stuff that happened after. All culminating in the short but terrifying battle against the creature

yet. They had to take

it, he walked over to the Carapace Demon's corpse, stopping at the spot where

greeted them with a tired

"Good morning."

polite smile. However, today it did not look very

give it 3.6 out of ten. Not great, not

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

for a few moments. That's when Neph attacked. She used her Aspect Ability to ignite her sword and struck at the weakened patch of armor on the demon's chest, the

trick. Either she knew all along because

from his fight with the… the thing from the sea, so

shook her

is… incredible. Two Sleepers killing an awakened demon! I thought that stuff like that

Nephis corrected her:

advice, we wouldn't have

her face, a

doesn't

to another, then finally turned to

meat for you after this is over, didn't I? Are you

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

don't know about

He raised his eyebrows.

"What? Why?"

She lingered before answering.

an intelligent creature. Even if it was evil. I didn't think about it before, but

not 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 was a bloodthirsty demon who would have swallowed them whole without a second

humans, and humans devoured monsters. It was the circle of life... death? The circle

were universally insane and obsessed with murder and destruction, just like he was, there were also other qualities to the ironclad

dark sea, he did not hesitate to stand his ground, refusing to surrender. Cooking the meat of

come Teacher Julius did not educate me on the ethics of

silence, Cassie blushed and

but that's just how I feel.

Sunny shook his head.

bring any supplies with us, so we won't be able

Then, her face brightened and she

the great tree's

looked at her in

"Are you serious?"

confused by his

"Uh… yes? Why?"

a couple of times

can? I'm pretty sure that