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.

much harder

Hard, or maybe even impossible,

Sunny was struggling

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

had shed his previous skin and learned new things. He learned to trust those who deserved to be trusted, and have hope in himself

really want to — was his spite. Spite had been the only

forgiveness. He could not even forgive Cassie, at least not fully, despite everything that they had

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

letting Solvane die

And yet…

trembling hand landed on the handle

was a very stubborn

the knife from the wall and swayed a little, struggling to keep the all-consuming

he wanted Solvane to pay, 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

really outraged at the thought of Hope

without a doubt — from the poisonous influence of the Demon of Desire, who had taken his trauma, sorrow, and anger, and turned it into

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

harder to overcome than the weight of

to suffer… wouldn't it be splendid to leave her to suffer… wouldn't it be the most joyous thing

why

fate… 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 want Solvane to be tortured for eternity much more than I want to be free… freedom is distant, and abstract. Who even wants it? But retribution, it's

teeth, he made

Step. Step. Another step.

harder than it had been to climb a

sure that he was going

contorted by an ugly grimace, and his dark eyes

Then, Sunny stopped.

this hateful witch will be

sighed, and smiled with

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

Sunny smiled…

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