Shadow Slave

Chapter 728

Hearing the cruel words that sentenced Solvane to thousands of years of harrowing torment, Sunny couldn't help but feel a dark, euphoric sense of glee.

The memory of pain she had visited upon him and the faces of those she had killed flashed in front of his eyes once again, making that glee grow even sweeter.

'Good… good…'

The only thing Sunny regretted was that he had killed Solvane in the distant future, releasing her from that torment. If he had known better back then, he would have left her to rot.

Noctis coldly stared at the squirming priestess for a moment, and then turned around, as if intending to leave.

Solvane let out a groan of agony, more vines breaking through her skin and crawling down to the floor.

"W—wait!"

She struggled to raise her head and look up, her eyes full of fear.

"Noctis… you have to… kill me. You won't be able to… free her… if I am alive!"

The sorcerer stopped, lingered for a moment, and then glanced at her over the shoulder. His face was cold and unmoving.

After a long pause, he said nonchalantly:

"...Hope is a great, powerful daemon. She can handle a shackle or two on her own."

As Solvane's eyes widened, Noctis looked away and took a step toward the gates of the hold.

And Sunny, meanwhile…

Was doing the hardest thing he had ever done in his life.

***

Sunny was walking toward the edge of the cargo hold, where the wooden knife was lodged into the wall.

Every step he made felt as if he was dragging a mountain with him.

was much

dragging it along was a simple task. Hard, or maybe even impossible, but simple nevertheless. However, he was

Sunny was struggling against his very

outskirts, fighting for his life in a cruel, indifferent world. He had to learn a lot of vicious lessons to survive. Those lessons made him selfish, cynical, and jaded,

hindrance. Slowly and painfully, he had shed his previous skin and learned new things.

had been the only thing that motivated him to survive the First Nightmare, after all.

even forgive Cassie, at least not fully, despite everything that they had been through together before and after her

believed in the value of retribution. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth… that was the

thought of letting Solvane die in

And yet…

hand landed on the handle of

a

the knife from the wall and swayed a little, struggling to keep the all-consuming hatred that drowned his mind

wanted Solvane to pay,

that, he wanted fate to go to hell. He could not allow for another thing to happen just like it had happened in the real past. He needed to prove, once and for all, that he was not a marionette that hung powerlessly from the strings of fate, able

outraged at the

poisonous influence of the Demon of Desire, who had taken his trauma, sorrow, and anger, and turned it into a weapon to subjugate

a weird thing, to know that his fury was fabricated, but at the same time welcome it and be tempted to

temptation… ah, it was way harder to overcome than the weight of

be splendid to leave her to suffer… wouldn't it be the most joyous thing ever? Oh, it

to even remember why he was

don't really want to be a slave… but who cares? I want Solvane to be tortured for eternity much more than I want to be free…

he

Step. Step. Another step.

much harder

wasn't sure that he was going to

was contorted by an ugly grimace, and

Then, Sunny stopped.

I change my mind. It is worth it! Surrendering to fate is worth it, if it means that this hateful witch will be tortured endlessly. This will be right… this will be

and smiled with

weight was lifted from his shoulders. He was free to bask in the joy of

Sunny smiled…

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