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 she was

remember. Five, right? See, it's

surroundings for any signs of danger from time to time. For

was it that she thought Sunny

his answer, the blind girl calmed down a little.

Good. Remember, it's five.

quieter, as though she was not sure of what she was saying. Sunny was

be to hold on to it. That's why I can only tell you this one word, the simplest

choosing his words,

tell us what

flinched and raised her

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

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

she the one who woke

did she wake

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

still groggy from waking up so abruptly. Lack of sleep

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

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

what to say. He was going to ask the

"I have no clue."

at Nephis, hoping that she will be able to

Star was standing a few steps away with a distracted expression on her face. Sensing his gaze,

do you have your

and tried to remember what had caused him

sure. Why did you summon

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

wrong with our heads

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

see another

Her eyes opened wide, once

saw a vision. An

"What did you see?"

A deep frown appeared on her face. Finally, Cassie quietly