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 she was from her

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

scan the surroundings for any signs of danger from time to time.

Sunny

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

Remember, it's

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

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… when the right time

his words,

you tell us

blind girl flinched and raised her head

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

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

woke them up in

why did she wake us up, to

the details of the past few minutes.

groggy from waking up so abruptly. Lack of sleep affects

had to do with

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

what to say. He

"I have no clue."

that she will

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

you have your

at the Midnight Shard and tried to remember what had caused

not sure. Why

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

with our

pointless to expect help from Nephis, Sunny sighed and turned back to

you see another

trembled. Her eyes opened wide, once again filled with

vision… yes, I saw a vision. An awful, awful

"What did you see?"

A deep frown appeared on her face.