Shadow Slave

It happened on the day they killed the Carapace Demon. Back then, all three of them were utterly exhausted. After moving away from the corpse of the giant creature and finding a good hiding spot, they fell to the ground and immediately fell asleep.

But they didn't stay asleep for long.

An hour or two later, Sunny was shaken awake by Cassie, who was holding him by the shoulders. There was an expression of terror written clearly on her face.

"Sunny! Sunny! Wake up!"

Instantly coming back to his senses, he jumped to his feet and summoned the Midnight Shard, afraid that they were under attack.

However, there was no one around except for panicked Cassie and wary Nephis, who was in a similar pose, her sword raised and ready to strike.

Confused, Sunny looked at the blind girl.

"Cassie? What's the matter?"

Grabbing him by the shoulders again, she brought her face close and whispered in a begging tone:

"Sunny, you have to stop it! Please! You are the only one who can!"

He frowned, failing to understand what exactly he was supposed to stop.

'Did she see another vision?'

Trying to calm her, he said in a measured tone:

"It's alright, Cassie. Slow down, breathe. Tell us what happened. Start from the beginning…"

She desperately shook her head.

"There's no time! I will forget soon! We all will! But you, you have to remember!"

'We will all forget soon? What does she mean?'

Not able to see Sunny's dazed expression, Cassie yelled:

"You have to remember, Sunny! Five! It's five! Remember! You have to remember! It's five!"

Remember… five?

any sense. Sunny carefully put his arm around her, feeling how scared

Five, right? See,

surroundings for any signs of danger from time to time. For some reason, Cassie was only

that she thought Sunny could do, but

the blind girl calmed down a little. However, she was

it's five.

voice sounded quieter and quieter, as though she was not sure of what she was saying. Sunny was barely able to discern

a thought, the harder it will be to hold on to it. That's why I can only tell you this one word, the simplest thing to impart…

his words, Sunny hesitantly

you tell us

the blind girl flinched and

fear in her eyes, but mostly,

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

woke them

did she wake us

the details of the past few minutes. The conversation they just had was

still groggy from waking up so abruptly. Lack

It had to do with the… uh…

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

say. He was

"I have no clue."

hoping that she will be able to clear the

standing a few steps away with a distracted expression on her face. Sensing his gaze, she stared at him and

have your sword

glanced at the Midnight Shard and tried to remember what

sure. Why did you

hands for the first time. An expression of doubt appeared on

wrong with our

it was pointless to expect help from Nephis, Sunny sighed and turned

you see another

blind girl trembled. Her eyes opened wide, once

vision… yes, I saw a vision.

"What did you see?"

was silent for a few moments, trying to remember. A deep frown appeared on her face.