1414 Bone Garden
Nephis and Cassie were talking about the Guiding Light. With no one noticing his hollow eyes, Sunny lingered for a while, then walked over to Nightmare. He reached to adjust the stirrups and froze.
After a moment of hesitation, Sunny climbed into the saddle instead.
His companions looked at him in confusion.
"Sunny?"
He stared into the mist.
"Stay here for a while. Please. I'll… I'll be back soon."
With that, Nightmare leaped off the deck of the Chain Breaker and carried him into the fog.
'Damn it, damn it, damn it…'
The ghastly leopard had already been bad enough, and yet… Sunny felt that the cohort would have been able to slay the dreadful creature, if at a steep cost.
But that bloodied hand…
They had not even caught a glimpse of the nebulous being that wandered the mist, snapping the towering pine trees like matchsticks. It had torn a Great Beast apart and obliterated them so casually… how was Sunny supposed to contend with something that oppressive and ineffable?
It felt as though something was pressing down heavily on his heart.
Was it… fear?
'Damn it!'
guided Nightmare into the misty
Jet, found her, and brought her back to
explain how she had ended up on Wind Flower, then told everyone about the time loop. There were some deviations from
the end, Nephis suggested
remembering the brief, but gruesome moment of all of them being crushed under the giant, bloodied palm. Then, he
As I said… it didn't
gaze, a subtle frown twisting the beautiful lines of her
What's the alternative? Give up and
She shook her head.
won't have enough essence to empower the Chain Breaker
and rose to his feet.
combined strength is not enough to brave the mist, at least not when we don't know
back touched the bulkhead and
do you
Sunny shrugged.
intercepted and killed, but a single swift scout can make it
expression, but
"I don't like it."
He shrugged.
or not, that seems to be the best
more, but in the end, Sunny managed to convince the
and Cassie did not possess a lot of physical prowess —
enough would leave no opportunity for the blind girl
"I'm going."
those words, Sunny once again rode Nightmare and dove
do it… I can… can I do
Guiding Light in his hand. The softly shining crystal at the tip of the sacred staff was pointing deeper
However…
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