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

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

imagine the whole thing? There really was no reason not to eat the alluring fruits. Especially when the three of them were

that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

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

What agreement?

there with a frown on his

embarrassing. Did I completely space out while she was talking

quickly came to his rescue. She always knew how

we

the big, delicious fruit in her hands. His

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

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

brought three

'How nice of her…'

the fruit, looked at it,

and refreshing, with rich texture and soft, lingering aftertaste. The ruby flesh practically melted on his tongue, making his whole body tingle. It was pure joy in the

'Wow!'

felt disturbed for some reason. Something

and 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

when... wait,

finally able to pinpoint the source of the strangeness. It was his shadow. When he reached out to pick up the fruit, the shadow

now it was motionless, refusing to mimic him eating

is it with

one more bite and looked at the shadow, lost

reason. If it didn't

frowned, suddenly feeling a sense of

something… something

is it so hard to think about this

wrong with the

at Nephis? She broke an agreement… what

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

terrible was going to happen

then, Sunny

unexpected happened, something that required his full

forgot all about the problem with the Soul

the Spell

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

The Spell announced the increase

his head

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

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

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