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?

was not making any sense. Sunny carefully put his arm around her, feeling how scared

Cas. I promise I'll remember. Five, right?

any signs of danger from time to time. For some reason, Cassie was only talking to Sunny, not paying

was it that she thought Sunny could do, but Changing Star

calmed down a little. However,

Remember, it's five. You

was not sure of what she was saying. Sunny was barely able to

it. That's why I can only tell you this one word, the simplest thing to impart… when the right time comes,

words, Sunny hesitantly

you tell us

girl flinched and

still traces of fear in her eyes, but mostly, it had been replaced

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

one who woke them up

did she wake us

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

guess I'm still groggy from waking up so abruptly. Lack of sleep

wanted to tell us something. It had to do with the… uh… number

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

say. He was going to ask

"I have no clue."

that she will

standing a few steps away with a distracted expression on her face.

you have

the Midnight Shard and tried to

sure. Why did you

the sword in her hands for the first time. An expression

with

from Nephis, Sunny sighed and turned back

you see

Her eyes opened

vision… yes, I saw a

"What did you see?"

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