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?

his arm around her, feeling how

Five, right? See, it's pretty hard

was looking at them with a frown, not neglecting to scan the surroundings for any signs of danger from

she thought Sunny could

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

it's five.

though she was not sure of

more complex 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

words, Sunny

tell

the blind girl flinched

in her eyes, but mostly, it had been replaced by

"Huh? Did something happen?"

Sunny blinked.

who woke them up in

did she wake us up,

remembering the details of the past few minutes. The conversation they just had was

groggy from waking up so abruptly. Lack of

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

Cassie raised her eyebrows.

"Five? Why five?"

He was going

"I have no clue."

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

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

have your sword

Midnight Shard and tried to remember what had caused him to

not sure. Why did you

hands for the first time. An expression of doubt

wrong with our

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

see another

trembled. Her eyes opened

saw a vision. An awful, awful

"What did you see?"

for a few moments, trying to remember. A deep frown appeared