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?

can't quite

but his memory was completely blank. There definitely was an agreement… wasn't

sure that there was, at least up until a few moments ago. Now, however… huh… did he imagine the whole thing? There really

that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

Sunny felt

What agreement?

answer, he just stood there

this is embarrassing. Did I completely space out while she was talking

Cassie quickly came to his rescue. She always knew how to make

you angry because we started eating without

big, delicious fruit in her hands.

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

fruit was placed on the

worry! Neph brought three of them, one

'How nice of her…'

picked up the fruit, looked at it, and took a bite

The succulent, juicy fruit was probably the most delicious thing he had ever tasted. It was both nourishing and refreshing, with

'Wow!'

Something was very

to think about anything except for how heavenly the fruit of the Soul Tree tasted, but

Since when... wait, don't get

the strangeness. It was his shadow. When he reached out

it was motionless, refusing

What is it

looked at the

shadow had an eccentric temper, but it rarely did something without a reason. If it didn't like the

frowned, suddenly feeling a sense of dread grip

something… something wrong with

hard to

wrong with

at Nephis?

he just needed to pull on

terrible was going to happen if he

then, Sunny got

unexpected happened, something that required

about the

Spell was talking into his

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

blinked, then looked at the delicious fruit in his hands. The Spell announced the

raised his head

at her fruit with a strange expression on her

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

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