Shadow Slave

Chapter 785

As Sunny bitterly explored the damage done to his entertainment system by the strange… malfunction… Nephis silently watched him from her stool.

"Doesn't make sense… gone, the projector is completely gone... it was so expensive!"

After a while, he turned to Changing Star with a miserable expression and opened his mouth, then frowned in confusion.

"Wait… is that my shirt?"

Neph shifted a little and then said, her voice even:

"I don't have any clothes."

Sunny stared at her for a few moments, then waved a hand and looked away, forgetting what he was going to say.

"Never mind. You can keep it. We can also order a delivery of anything else you need. I am an incredibly rich entrepreneur, you know!"

He paused, then added with a bit of embarrassment:

"Well, I used to be rich, anyway. These days, I pretty much spend everything on… research."

She tilted her head a little, then suddenly said:

"...The girl you're tutoring visited."

'What?!'

Pretending to be nonchalant, Sunny glanced at Nephis and answered in a neutral tone:

"Oh? Strange. We weren't supposed to have any lessons until a few days from now."

Neph remained silent for a few moments, then looked away with a smile:

"She is a bright kid. I'm glad you are teaching her."

studied her expression

with

Finally, Sunny shrugged.

money is money. My lessons aren't

he sighed, threw the destroyed projector out of

you hungry? I can cook something up. My culinary skills have improved

always been the one in charge of feeding the cohort. Now, their roles seemed to have

deactivated her communicator and said

could eat.

Changing Star frowned

a consultation with the government psychiatrist I need to attend shortly. By

her for a while, then

'This is so weird…'

he took out a pack of ramen,

that I would hear something like that from you, of

the process of cooking ramen,

it really

and looked down. After a while, she suddenly

wasn't too

voice sounded distant,

there in the Dream Realm,

then looked

"...Happy."

had not expected

you

She sighed, and nodded.

terrible, and hard. Many times, I did not think that I would survive. Other times, I wanted to die. There was so

wistful expression slowly settled on her

Survive. There was no space for unnecessary thoughts. No burdens I had to carry. No complicated feelings, no responsibility. I did not have to remember where I came from, and where I was headed. I did not have to a part

living like that would feel like. Well… he didn't have to try too hard. Had he not experienced something

giving up on everything except for the things he needed to survive. Even if the things he was giving up

for several months instead of years, and the environment had not been as

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