Shadow Slave

Caster stared at him for a long time, then suddenly laughed. Even Cassie giggled, entertained by Sunny's earnest delivery.

Shaking his head, the handsome young man smiled and said:

"I see your sense of humor did not change. Good, that is good. Few people manage to preserve it here."

Sunny blinked a couple of times and said, pretending to be offended:

"What do you mean, sense of humor? It's the honest truth."

He received another bout of laughter instead of an answer.

'...There was food, safety, and laughter,' he thought suddenly, remembering how Cassie had described the Bright Castle after dreaming of it for the first time.

She had also seen Sunny leading her through its gates. Her prophetic visions were turning out to be frighteningly accurate.

'Makes you wonder about that other vision she saw…'

Not allowing himself to become distracted, Sunny chased away the ominous feeling and hid a smile. Then, with a shrug, he scoffed.

"Well, don't believe me if you don't want to. That was just one of my many adventures, anyway. Although the other ones were, admittedly, less remarkable — you know, the usual stuff: slaying dozens of awakened creatures, being resurrected from the doors of death by a beautiful princess, summoning ancient horrors from the depths of the cursed sea, outsmarting ancient fiends to escape from their clutches, sailing through the abyss on a boat made of demon bones, fighting gargantuan leviathans underwater, and so forth. Mundane crap like that."

As he was talking, Cassie gradually stopped laughing and turned to him with a somewhat startled expression on her face. It seemed as though it was only now, with the harrowing journey already behind them, that she had finally realized how outlandish it all actually was.

Put together, the facts of their bloody struggle to survive sounded like something out of a fairy tale. But they both knew that all of that had actually happened.

It had happened to them.

Caster chuckled.

spent a few days running away from a bunch of terrifying monsters, then stumbled on

He sighed.

the way, when did you guys arrive? I'm

at his monster stew, which was slowly growing cold, he sighed

the Dark City two days ago, and entered the castle

Legacy stared at him, then blinked a

Did you guys really spend two months

'Uh-oh.'

First of all, there was no better advantage than being underestimated by the enemy. Secondly, he still had to hide the fact that Changing

had long thought of

blame everything

inwardly, Sunny pretended to

pure hell. Honestly, if it wasn't for Changing Star, both of us

too, but Caster didn't

sure that mentioning Neph's name anywhere near the names of two losers like Cassie and him were believed to be would make anyone think that she had single-handedly carried the both of them to safety on her

it turns out, he was

changed on Caster's face. With a strange look in his eyes, the

is alive?

unlikely it was for someone like Sunny to survive a long journey through the

slightly. Caster's reaction was a little bit more intense than he had anticipated. It

the tall and handsome Legacy had seemed to be strangely enamored with Nephis even back at

'You bastard!'

unknown reason, Sunny gritted

"Yeah. She's around."

his direction, Cassie hesitated for a

we came to the