Shadow Slave

Chapter 568

He sat back down, waited for a while, and then turned to Cassie:

"Did you take a look at her Attributes?"

She sat down, too, and sighed.

"Yes. Her, the four Lost with her. Sir Pierce, too. I also saw the name and Rank of their Aspects."

Sunny frowned.

"What? Since when can you read Aspects, too?"

The blind girl shrugged.

"Since my Awakening."

He stared at her for a bit.

'What a useful Ability…'

In worse news, if she had not known some of his secrets before, she surely knew them now.

'...How infuriating.'

Sunny grimaced, lingered for a bit, and then said:

"Good. Chances are, we'll need that information before all of this is over."

He didn't press her for answers yet, since there was a lot he had to think about.

Some more time passed with both of them remaining silent. After a while, the door of the chamber opened once more, and the familiar four Lost entered. The one with a bandaged head was carrying a tray of food and a waterskin.

He studied them for a few moments, a cold expression on his handsome face, and then threw the food and the waterskin through the iron bars without approaching the cage.

Sunny suppressed his anger and opened his mouth, assuming the persona of a cowardly researcher:

"Hey! Sir… uh… sir Awakened! Can you tell us what is going on? Please, we don't even know what is wrong!"

The sentinel glanced at him darkly and spat in a commanding tone:

"Silence!"

full of arrogant confidence… and deep animosity toward the two

left, once

gaze and glanced at the food that rolled down the slope

his head

thought I'll be

of him, reflecting the blue glow of the runes, two colorless tubes of synthpaste were lying on the

their shape all

***

same. Still, this vile invention was cheap to produce and

had not missed the

a tube of synthpaste, a cheap water filter, and several dry, tasteless crackers. This was

Such irony...

a while, tired and weak without the essence

had to settle with their backs against each other. With nothing but two layers of thin fabric separating their skin, Sunny could feel the

was cold and chilly, but at least his back was

for a while, trying

however, Cassie

"Sunny…"

voice was

is she

for a few moments,

is doing great. She is a devil

didn't

sudden change in her breathing. Through

around and

seemed white and bloodless. It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing on

knowing what to

was having a vision, and that like most of her visions, this one was painful and terrifying. Was he supposed to

decide, she suddenly sat up with a stifled yelp. Her chest was rising and falling wildly,

girl raised her hands and tried to feel her surroundings, clearly

one of them, making Cassie flinch, and

You're in a cage in

After a while, Cassie took a deep

"...I'm alright."

picked up the mostly empty waterskin, and put

girl drank the last of their water and closed her

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