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 a

with that

Finally, Sunny shrugged.

money. My lessons

sighed, threw the destroyed projector out of his mind,

something up. My culinary skills have improved a lot, you know! As you

was a strange thing. Back on the Forgotten Shore, Nephis had always been the one in charge of feeding the cohort. Now, their roles seemed to have reversed, in more

her communicator

could eat.

frowned slightly and

I don't have a lot of time. There is a… a consultation with the government

for a while, then shook his

'This is so weird…'

took out a pack of ramen, some vegetables, a piece of

thought that I would hear something like that from

started the process of cooking ramen,

it really

sighed and looked down. After a while, she suddenly

wasn't

voice sounded distant,

there in the

inhaled deeply, and then looked at

"...Happy."

dropped the cooking pot. Of all the answers out there, he had not expected to hear that one.

you say

She sighed, and nodded.

not think that I would survive. Other times, I wanted to

wistful expression slowly settled

All I had to do was walk, fight, kill. 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 of… anything. It was just me against the Nightmare Creatures.

didn't have to try too hard. Had he not experienced something similar while living alone in the ruined cathedral of

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

his isolation had only lasted for several months instead of years, and the

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