Shadow Slave

Soon, the Chain Breaker was swallowed by the mist. The winds had grown stronger, making the folds of Sunny's nebulous mantle flutter. Feeling drops of water fall on his face, he sighed and looked at Cassie.

"Go."

She lingered for a moment, then rushed away to replace Nephis at the steering oar. Sunny was left alone on the bow, looking into the mist with a dark expression on his face.

'Effie, Jet...'Both of them were still alive. They had to be.

But how could they?

The Third Nightmare was not easy to survive. And these two... they, of all people, would have found it impossible to cling to life while stranded for more than a year on an isolated island.

Jet could only exist by killing living beings to replenish her constantly dwindling essence, after all. Effie was a slave to inhuman hunger. Without access to a great amount of food, she would swiftly wither and die.

How many foes to kill could there have been on a hidden island, and how much food?

'No... don't think about that.'

The crow Echo still existed, which meant at least one of them was still...

"That crow has always been a bit strange, though. Much too animated for a simple Echo. Perhaps it has something to do with Wake of Ruin... so who's to say that it can't exist without a Master?"

Sunny threw a dark glance at the Sin of Solace, who grinned in response.

"Admit it, they are both probably dead already. Ah, how sad... they were slowly starving to death while you were having fun with Nephis on the dark island. You really took it easy back then, at the beginning, didn't you?"

looked away and gritted his teeth. The sword wraith simply

to think of it, your friend Kai is most likely dead, too. Even if the Nightmare Creatures did not kill him, Mordret surely did. He is probably walking around now, wearing Kai's corpse right as a luxury brand suit. Well... it's for the best. You have always been jealous of

before, making the bow of the Chain Breaker

charm - I gave it to him. Mordret can't possess someone wearing that

for a few moments, a mocking smile

charm, right... it protected

Sunny turned around and prepared to rebuke the apparition, but at that moment, a calm voice resounded from behind

talking to

two pristine white sparks burning in her cold grey eyes. He

looked into

they

bitter smile appeared on

like

how ruthless this world they lived in was, so wasn't it a bit naive? To stubbornly cling to hope after

Nephis shook her head.

logical reason to believe that all members

the hilt

Plagues exist. They are most likely the future versions of the six of you... therefore, none of you is likely to be dead in

a

reassuring, in a morbid kind of way. You can't die yet because you're destined to become a Defiled monster, huh? What a

no way that Effie and Jet were gone. However, that also meant that there was no way for the six of them to avoid

the Nightmare. Yet it also meant that

small occurrence and event. The details of what happened, and how it did, could be altered - it was just that the end result

Nightmare, as well, due to its fragmented and