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.

it was much harder

simple task. Hard, or maybe even impossible, but simple nevertheless. However, he was not struggling against

Sunny was struggling against his very

grown up in the 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, unwilling to trust anyone

he had shed his previous skin and learned new things. He

spite. Spite had been the only thing

was not big on forgiveness. He could not even forgive Cassie, at least not fully, despite everything that they had been through together before and after her decision

an eye, a tooth for a tooth… that was the

was why the very thought of letting Solvane die

And yet…

landed on the handle of

was a very stubborn

from the wall and swayed a

wanted Solvane to pay, he

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 only to dance to a predetermined

outraged at the

scorching intensity of his hatred for the War Maiden had come from, without a doubt — from the poisonous influence of the Demon of Desire, who had taken

a weird thing, to know that his fury was fabricated, but at the

was way harder to overcome than

leave her to suffer… wouldn't it

to even remember why

I did promise to destroy it, didn't I? That was because… because my fate is to be a slave. I don't really want to be a slave… but who cares? I

his teeth, he made a step

Step. Step. Another step.

harder than it had been

he was

ugly grimace, and his dark eyes burned

Then, Sunny stopped.

is worth it! Surrendering to fate is worth it, if it means that this hateful

and smiled with

terrible weight was lifted from his shoulders.

Sunny smiled…

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