Shadow Slave

Sunny shifted in his seat, a bleak expression appearing on his face.

'A human?'

Why would a Master be hunting down a human? There was police for that.

Unless, of course, that human was an Awakened…

Sunny was aware that special government agents — carriers of the Nightmare Spell themselves — dealt with those Awakened who broke the law, simply because police officers were often helpless against criminals that possessed inhuman strength and wielded bizarre or dangerous Aspect Abilities. It made sense that Master Jet would be involved in that side of government work, too.

But, honestly, he didn't know too much about how these things usually went.

Glancing at her, Sunny asked:

"Is it an Awakened criminal?"

Master Jet spared him a short glance.

"A… criminal? Yes, you might say that."

She remained quiet for a few moments, and then corrected herself.

"No, actually, do not. The man we must find is not a criminal. He is an animal... a rabid one."

Sunny frowned.

"An interesting choice of words."

Master Jet was concentrating on driving the PTV, so she didn't answer immediately. When she did, however, her voice was strangely calm:

"You are not an inexperienced Sleeper anymore, Sunny, so I will be straightforward. You, of all people, should be able to understand. The Nightmares, the Dream Realm… they take a toll. Some people endure, some people break. Some people carry the nightmares back with them to the real world."

expression slowly appeared on her

who return alive, that is. We have all the privileges, all the money, all the power. But the mark it leaves on us never goes

the road, her icy eyes full

the saviors of the world… but really, most of us are walking on the edge, just one little step away from madness. All that

silent for a while, thinking about the damage a deranged Awakened could do in the mundane world. His expression

didn't even want to

that happens... you

Jet glanced at him

— or someone like me — receives the call. Things like that usually don't get out, because the government doesn't want them to. For obvious reasons. Everything is

speak for a bit. Then,

going to happen? We find this guy, talk him down or overpower him, and then put

side of this equation a few times in the

complicated look. There

not going to arrest

blinked a

free to walk around as if nothing happened until the

there was

if reading his thoughts, Jet slowly

he won't be walking

into

"...Ah."

Master Jet sighed.

in prison. But we… we are Awakened. Realistically, there is no prison that can be built to hold us.

even further, and then said

will only be

made sense. Awakened were too powerful, and too dangerous. If one of them lost control, then they needed to be dealt with, somehow. In a perfect world, they would go through the same process that mundane

either locked in a cell or

not