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?

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

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

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

it that she thought Sunny could do, but Changing

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

Good. Remember, it's five. You

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

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

choosing his words, Sunny hesitantly

Can you tell us what happened,

blind girl flinched and raised her head to

in her eyes,

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

woke them up in a

did she wake us up, to begin

the details of the past few minutes. The conversation they

still groggy from waking up so

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

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

to say. He was going

"I have no clue."

at Nephis, hoping that she will be able to

few steps away with a distracted expression on

you have your

to remember what had caused him to

not sure. Why did

though noticing the sword in her hands for the first time. An expression of

wrong with our

to expect help from Nephis, Sunny sighed and turned

see

trembled. Her eyes opened wide,

yes, I saw a vision. An

"What did you see?"

a few moments, trying to remember. A deep frown appeared on her face. Finally,