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

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

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

it that she thought Sunny could do, but Changing

girl calmed down a little.

Good. Remember, it's five. You

sure of what she was saying. Sunny was barely able to

a thought, the harder it will be to hold on to it. That's why I can only

his words,

you tell us what happened,

the blind girl flinched and raised her head to

of fear in her eyes, but

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

she the one who woke them up in a

did she wake us up, to begin

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

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

tell us something. It had

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

say. He was going to ask the same

"I have no clue."

looked at Nephis, hoping that she will be able to clear

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

you have your sword

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

sure. Why did you

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

with our

from Nephis, Sunny sighed and

see another

Her eyes opened wide,

saw a vision. An

"What did you see?"

A deep frown appeared on