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?

put his arm around her, feeling how

promise I'll remember. Five, right? See, it's pretty hard to

frown, not neglecting to scan the surroundings for any signs of danger from time to time. For some reason, Cassie was

was it that she thought Sunny could do, but Changing

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

it's

as though she was not sure of

more complex 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…

choosing his words, Sunny

Can you tell us

voice, the blind girl flinched and raised

her eyes, but mostly, it had been

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

the one who woke them up in

did she wake us up, to

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

from waking up so abruptly.

had to do with the… uh…

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

didn't know what to say. He was going to ask

"I have no clue."

Nephis, hoping that she will

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

have

glanced at the Midnight Shard and tried to remember what had caused him to

not sure. Why did you summon

in her hands for the first time. An

wrong with

help from Nephis, Sunny sighed

you see

blind girl trembled. Her eyes opened wide, once again

saw a vision. An awful,

"What did you see?"

moments, trying to remember. A deep frown appeared