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

a reason, but his memory

the whole thing?

wait… that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

at Nephis, who was looking at him with concern. Suddenly, Sunny felt lost

What agreement?

stood there

completely space out

quickly came to his rescue. She always knew how to make the situation less

we started eating

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

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

placed on the pile of fallen leaves. Her teeth

brought three of them, one for

'How nice of her…'

up the fruit, looked at it, and took

refreshing, with rich texture and soft,

'Wow!'

disturbed for some reason. Something

tried to understand the source of this anxious feeling. It was hard to think about anything except for how heavenly the fruit of the Soul Tree tasted, but he forced himself

Soul Tree? Since when... wait, don't get

It was his shadow. When he reached out to pick up the fruit, the shadow

refusing to mimic

What is it with this

more bite and looked at

temper, but it rarely did something without a reason. If it didn't like the fruit, there had to be something wrong

suddenly feeling a sense of dread grip

something… something wrong

it so hard to think about

something wrong with the fruit? Why

at Nephis? She broke an agreement… what

though he just needed to pull on the thread, and the whole truth would reveal

was going to happen

then, Sunny

something that

forgot all about the problem with the Soul

moment, the Spell

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

fruit in his hands. The Spell announced the increase in his power right after

his head and looked

was staring at her fruit with a strange expression on her

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

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