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

up with

Finally, Sunny shrugged.

money.

sighed, threw the destroyed projector out of his

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

the one in charge of feeding the cohort. Now, their roles

her communicator

could eat.

Star frowned

have a lot of time. There is a… a consultation with the government psychiatrist I

for a while, then

'This is so weird…'

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

never thought that I would hear something like that from you, of all people. A... psychiatrist,

the process of cooking ramen, and

really

down.

It wasn't

voice sounded distant, and

fact, out there in the Dream Realm, I

deeply, and then looked at him

"...Happy."

answers out there, he had not expected to hear that one. Looking at Nephis with an incredulous expression,

you say

She sighed, and nodded.

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

slowly settled on

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

too hard. Had he not experienced something similar while living alone in the ruined

except for the things he needed to survive. Even

isolation had only lasted for several months instead of years, and the environment had not

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