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

memory was completely blank. There

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 when

that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

felt lost and confused. What were they talking

What agreement?

stood there with

I completely space

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

angry because we started

her and noticed the big, delicious

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

where another fruit was placed on the pile

three

'How nice of her…'

picked up the fruit, looked at

with rich texture and soft, lingering aftertaste. The ruby flesh practically melted on his

'Wow!'

delight, Sunny felt disturbed for some reason. Something was very

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 to

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

shadow. When he reached out

now it was motionless, refusing to

it with this

took one more bite and looked at the shadow,

temper, but it rarely did something without a reason. If it didn't

feeling a sense

was something… something wrong with

is it so hard to think about this

with

at Nephis? She broke an agreement… what was the

felt as though he just needed to pull on the

to

then, Sunny

unexpected happened, something that required

all about the problem with the Soul

Spell was

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

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

he raised his head and looked

a strange expression on her face. Feeling his gaze, she looked

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255