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?"

gritted his teeth. The sword wraith

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 that guy, anyway. The insecure little wretch that

growing restless. The waves were already much taller than before, making the bow of the Chain Breaker sway. Feeling the deck rise

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

him for a few moments,

it protected

the apparition, but at

to

itself from the mist, two pristine white sparks burning in her cold grey eyes. He hesitated for

once she reached him, Nephis looked into the

that they

bitter smile appeared

but it seems like wishful

to know how ruthless this world they lived in was, so wasn't it a bit naive?

Nephis shook her head.

there is a valid and logical reason to believe that all members of the cohort are not dead

hilt of her sword and said

the six of you... therefore, none of you

hesitated for a

in a morbid kind of way. You can't die yet because you're destined to become a Defiled

gone. However, that also meant that there was no way for the six of them to avoid killing her and becoming

not predetermined, though, then the cohort could potentially write a different ending for themselves and the Nightmare. Yet it also meant that there was no reason to believe that the

he also knew that it did not govern every small occurrence and event. The details of what happened, and how it did, could be altered - it was just that the end result almost always remained the same. Sooner or later, all deviations were proven meaningless,

a Nightmare, as well, due to