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

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

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

wait… that's

"Are you alright, Sunny?"

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

What agreement?

there with a

embarrassing. Did I completely space

quickly came to his rescue. She always knew how to make

angry because we

and noticed the big, delicious fruit

'So hungry…'

"Uh… I guess?"

fruit was placed on the pile of fallen leaves. Her teeth

three of them,

'How nice of her…'

up the fruit, looked at

most delicious thing he had ever tasted. It was both nourishing and refreshing, with rich texture and soft, lingering aftertaste. The

'Wow!'

some reason. Something was

bite, he frowned 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

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

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

was motionless, refusing to mimic him

it

and looked at the shadow, lost in

rarely did something without a reason. If it didn't like the fruit,

feeling a sense of dread grip his

something wrong with

it so hard to think about

wrong with the fruit?

Nephis? She

He felt as though he just needed to pull on the

terrible was going to happen if

Sunny got

unexpected happened, something that required

about the problem with

the Spell was talking into

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

'Wh—what?'

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

head

staring at her fruit with a strange expression on her face. Feeling his gaze,

Sunny licked his lips.

"Did you…"

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