Shadow Slave

Chapter 650

Sunny remained silent for as long as he could, until, finally, the Flaw forced him to give an answer.

He looked grimly at Noctis, and then said — or rather, thought — hoarsely:

"...Maybe he just wanted to see you suffer."

Noctis laughed brightly, then nodded.

"Oh, indeed! Maybe you are right. Gods can be very cruel, sometimes. After all, they are much more ancient and vast than kindness and compassion. Or, maybe, it is not really our lives that keep the Demon bound, but instead our will and desire to keep her imprisoned. Or maybe it is a test of our conviction… that is what the Sun Lord believes, at least. Or maybe… maybe he actually hoped that we would free her. Who knows?"

He smiled, then sighed, and finally added:

"...If mortals like us could know the will of gods, then we'd be gods instead."

After that, a somber silence settled over the deck of the flying ship.

Sunny stared at the delicious food in front of him, realizing that he had lost all his appetite.

Hope… the Demon of Desire…

How terrifying she was.

Slowly, several things that had seemed random and meaningless fell into place.

The jubilant crowd in the bloodsoaked Red Colosseum, the perverse conviction of beautiful Solvane, the harrowing torture of the Sun Prince, the madness that burned in the eyes of the black steed… all of it was the result of her harrowing power.

turning it into a ghastly, hideous, demented hell. Every aspiration, every desire, every dream, every hope were twisted, set aflame,

nor Awakened... not even Saints. Those

her own hope? What was the Demon of

Well, that was easy…

to be

like Sunny wanted to

all too well. Solvane was seeking out death, the two Transcendents of the Ivory City seemed to

from the little bits of what the sorcerer had said, she was not in her right mind,

in reverse that he had witnessed at the very start of the Nightmare. The

the Ivory City would be burned to the ground, and Hope's prison would then break off its seven chains and rise above the Chained

then, the Crushing would be created,

dire feeling grasped his two

'Oh, no…'

to a harrowing realization. His eyes

Nightmare. They had to either help this mad sorcerer free the terrifying Demon, or make sure that

five of them were pitted

audible groan escaped from his

to the Spell always being fair?

Solvane's challenge… the gratitude she expressed… had Solvane really eradicated

known all along what would happen if one of the Chain Lords was killed, and doomed all of the remaining immortals, including herself, to a fate worse than death

been the bravest

on how one looked at

that didn't really

and channeled a somber thought, which came

thing that he still

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