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

Finally, Sunny shrugged.

is money.

sighed, threw the destroyed projector out of his mind, and walked into the

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

strange thing. Back on the Forgotten Shore, Nephis had always been the one in charge of feeding

her communicator and

could eat.

Star frowned slightly and

of time. There is a… a consultation with the

at her for a while, then

'This is so weird…'

did not demand a lot of time to make, he took out a pack of ramen, some vegetables, a piece of natural meat, and a pair

something like that from you,

of cooking ramen,

really that

down. After a while, she suddenly

It wasn't

sounded distant, and a

there in

then looked at him

"...Happy."

there, he had not expected to

you say

She sighed, and nodded.

not think that I would survive. Other times, I wanted to die. There was so much pain, so much hunger, so much

wistful expression slowly

liberating. 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

too hard. Had he not experienced something similar while living alone in the ruined cathedral of the Dark City? Yes, he had

happiest he had ever been, perhaps. There was a bliss in giving up on everything except for the things he needed to survive. Even if the things he was giving up

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

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