The mighty huntress stared at the Stone Saint, her hand hovering in the air, ready to grasp the shaft of the spear. Her beautiful hazel eyes were full of tension and dark anticipation.
The contrast between that fierce pose and the fact that she was still comfortably wrapped in a blanket was so funny that Sunny couldn't help but snicker.
"Gee, relax. Haven't you seen an Echo before?"
Effie blinked.
"That thing… is yours? Wait, you got an Echo?!"
He gave her a nod and gestured at the Stone Saint.
"Yes, I did. Meet Saint. Aint' she a beauty?"
The huntress stared at the taciturn creature, then scowled with outrage.
"You lucky bastard! You do know that I haven't even caught a sniff of an Echo after three years in this pit? How dare you get one before me, huh?"
Sunny laughed.
"Actually, this was my second Echo. The first one got killed in the Labyrinth."
Effie glared at him for a long time, then shook her head with an expression of utter dejection. Finally, she turned to the Shadow and studied her.
"Wait… is she what I think she is?"
Sunny nodded.
"Yeah."
stood up from the bed and, leaving the blanket behind, walked barefoot
did you manage to kill one of
who had found himself involuntary studying Effie from all
to say the least. I just happened to be there in time to finish one off.
at the Shadow
"What class is she?"
Sunny smiled.
not impossible to hunt three monsters in one night with her by my
her arms, thought for a bit,
paranoid you are, I'd expect you to keep such
up, lingered for
planned, showing her to you is sort
gave him a
wrong, I'm up for all kinds of
not quite getting what she was
degenerate are you?! Training!
unruly huntress
wrong with being a bit inexperienced, at your age. In fact, it's quite charming! You don't need to resort to
you calling inexperienced?! I'm plenty experienced! Wait… crap.
left Sunny to fume with outrage and walked over to the makeshift kitchen while shaking her head.
her. Should I kill her? It's going to be pure self-defense, anyway. A week of this will be the
calm down. When his thoughts returned to their usual cadence, Sunny stood in front of the Stone Saint and
time to
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his way back to the cathedral, Sunny had made
the power
this was going to bring him a lot of pain in the future, he was adamant about his choice. There were several reasons why he wanted to face his
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