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

sure that there was a reason, but his memory was completely blank. There definitely was an

the whole thing? There really was no

wait… that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

Sunny felt lost and confused. What were they talking about? Something… something about

What agreement?

how to answer, he just stood there

completely space out while she was talking

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

angry because we started eating without

and noticed the big, delicious fruit in

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

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

worry! Neph brought three of them, one for

'How nice of her…'

looked at it, and took a

mouth was filled with delightful, cool sweetness. The succulent, juicy fruit was probably the most delicious thing he had ever tasted. It was both nourishing and refreshing, with rich

'Wow!'

for some reason. Something

feeling. It was hard to think about anything except for how heavenly the fruit of the Soul Tree tasted, but he forced

Since when... wait, don't

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

refusing to mimic

is it with

looked at the

reason. If it didn't like the fruit, there had to be something wrong

frowned, suddenly feeling a sense of dread grip

something… something wrong

hard to

wrong with

Nephis? She broke

at the precipice of remembering something very important. He felt as though he

was going to happen if

then, Sunny

happened, something that required his

all about the problem with the Soul

moment, the Spell was talking into his

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

looked at the delicious fruit in his hands. The Spell announced the increase in his

his head and looked at

at her fruit with a strange expression on her face.

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

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