Shadow Slave

Changing Star frowned. There was a hint of surprise visible in her cold, grey eyes.

"My… goal? Isn't it obvious?"

She gestured to the slum that surrounded them and the magnificent castle towering above it.

"I'm trying to help these people. What else?"

Sunny sighed.

Then, turning his face away, he asked:

"Hey, have I ever told you about my sister?"

Nephis blinked.

"No. Why bring this up all of the sudden?"

He smiled wistfully.

"I just was reminded of her recently, so I thought I'd share. You see… our parents died when we were little. She got adopted, but I ended up on the streets. Life wasn't really sweet for me. In fact, it was nothing but unsavory and bitter. So, young as I was, I simply imagined that it was the same for her. That's why I got obsessed with the idea of finding her. I had this fantasy in my head, you know, of saving and protecting her. Becoming a family again."

Sunny grimaced.

"But how could a penniless undesirable like me find anyone? You know how the city databases are. Even if they're functional, unsealing anything requires you to be a citizen, and one of a considerable rank, too. However, I was ready to do anything to accomplish my goal. So, I saved up money. A street kid can't earn much, but even then, I saved up as much as I could."

A dark expression appeared on his face.

all kinds of horrid crap. And after four or five years of this, by the time I was nearly seventeen, I finally had enough to hire a private

He smiled.

detective who sometimes hired us nobodies to gather information for him. His services weren't cheap, but I trusted him. Or in him, at least. So I gave all my money to that guy and told him to find my sister. And you know what? He did. One day, about a month after we made the deal, he gave me a piece of

moments, then asked

happened? Did you meet your

glanced

near the tram terminal. Only at that time, I didn't recognize her. You see, despite my lofty ideas of being her savior, I couldn't even really remember what she looked like. There was this girl, around twelve years old, wearing a tidy school uniform. She was walking in the same direction as me. I only realized that it was her after she entered the house

a while, then continued, his voice

in a really nice district. They actually had the whole house to themselves. Just one family living in it, can you imagine? Well, I guess you can. Anyway… there was even a lawn. And a window… a big window that shined

his own embarrassing astonishment, and tried to smile. However, he

observed her family for a while. She had parents who loved her and treated her well. She had real food, and enough of it to never go

looked at him and

did

at his own frail body, his dirty and ragged clothes, the

didn't even remember that he

you want to read more chapters ? ] Out there on that dark and rainy night, while Sunny was standing in the shadows,

in after this, nothing would really compare

a long time, he slowly backed

showing the

rest

the unpleasant memories, Sunny pretended to be carefree and

did the only selfless thing that I have ever done. I turned around and

shook her

finding its way into his

So please tell me, Neph, why is it

deep frown appearing on

that I lied about my intention