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

his memory was completely

pretty sure that there was, at least up until a few moments ago. Now, however… huh… did he imagine the whole thing? There really was no reason not to eat the alluring fruits. Especially

that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

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

What agreement?

knowing how to answer, he just stood there with a frown on his

space out while she

came to his rescue. She always knew how to

we started

the big, delicious fruit in her hands.

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

pointed to the ground, where another fruit was placed on the pile of fallen leaves. Her teeth were

worry! Neph brought three of them, one

'How nice of her…'

fruit, looked at it, and took a bite without

nourishing and refreshing, with rich texture and soft, lingering aftertaste.

'Wow!'

Sunny felt disturbed for some reason. Something was very wrong about

to think about anything except for how heavenly the fruit of

when... wait, don't

strangeness. It was his shadow. When he reached out to pick up the fruit, the shadow did not

motionless, refusing to mimic him

What is it with

more bite and looked at the

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

suddenly feeling a sense of dread grip his

something… something

so hard to think

with the fruit? Why would

this why I screamed at Nephis?

as though he just needed to pull on the thread, and the whole

to happen if

Sunny got

something that required

somehow forgot all about the

at that moment, the Spell was talking into his

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

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

his head and looked

strange expression on her face.

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

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