Shadow Slave

Chapter 77

Sunny stumbled and looked at his companions in utter shock.

Nephis and Cassie were each holding a large, round, glistening fruit. The skin of these fruits was smooth and black as onyx, while the succulent insides were red as ruby. Their hands, chins and lips were smeared with red juice, making it look as though they were feasting on blood.

The air was filled with an alluring, sweet aroma.

Sunny recoiled...

But his stomach involuntarily growled, reminding him how hungry he was.

Nephis looked at Sunny and offered him a relaxed smile.

"Hey."

He stared at her, lost for words. Finally, after a few seconds had passed, Sunny collected himself and screamed:

"What do you mean "hey"?! What the hell are you doing?!"

His voice was loud, full of disbelief and anger.

Both Neph and Cassie turned to face him. They were visibly confused.

"Why are you shouting?"

Sunny gaped at them, feeling like he had lost his mind. Why were they so nonchalant about this? What was going on here?!

Trying to find some sense in the situation, he took a cautious step forward and looked at Nephis. Did she… wait… what was he thinking about?

He was so hungry. It was hard to concentrate on anything except for food…

Shaking off the unexpected memory lapse, Sunny remembered what he was about to say and pressed:

"Why did you change your mind?"

Changing Star frowned.

"Changed my mind? About what?"

He clenched his teeth, thinking that she was trying to fool him.

"About the fruits! I thought we had agreed to avoid eating them!"

Nephis blinked, a confused expression appearing on her face.

"Did we? ...Why?"

Sunny opened his mouth to answer, but then froze.

Actually, why did they make that agreement?

I can't quite

a reason, but his memory was completely blank. There

imagine the whole thing? There

that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

concern. Suddenly, Sunny felt lost and confused. What were they talking about?

What agreement?

answer, he just stood there with a frown on

is embarrassing. Did I completely space out

always knew how to make the situation less

because we

and noticed the big, delicious fruit in her hands. His stomach

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

smiled and pointed to the ground, where another fruit was placed on the pile of fallen leaves. Her teeth were smeared with red

Neph brought three of them, one

'How nice of her…'

at it, and took a bite without

with

'Wow!'

reason. Something was very wrong

he frowned and tried to understand the source of this anxious feeling. It was hard to think about anything except for

Since when... wait, don't get

strangeness. It was his shadow. When he reached out

refusing to mimic him eating

it with this

looked at the shadow,

If it didn't like the fruit, there had to be something wrong with…

a sense

something… something

it so hard to think about

with

I screamed at Nephis? She

at the precipice of remembering something very important. He felt as though he just needed to pull on the thread, and the whole

was going to happen if he

Sunny got

unexpected happened, something that required

he somehow forgot all about the problem with

that moment, the Spell was talking into

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

looked at the delicious fruit in his hands. The Spell announced the increase in his power

his head and looked at

her fruit with a strange expression on

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

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