Shadow Slave

By the time Sunny returned with Jet, Cassie had already explained the situation to Nephis as best as she could. That had already saved him some time - not that it mattered during this revolution.

For now, his goal was to get Cassie up to speed.

As they left the Chain Breaker and headed toward the bone orchard, Sunny started to describe the perils of Wind Flower to her in detail. Jet and Nephis listened, too, growing grimmer with each minute.

"The Devouring Beast is here as well?"

Hearing Jet's somber question, Sunny nodded.

She lingered for a moment.

"Who is Devouring Beast, though?"

'Oh...'

Soul Reaper only knew who Undying Slaughter was because they had met. She had no concept of who the Six Plagues were, and no explanation to how a Defiled version of her could exist on the island.

Sunny explained the things briefly... not that he knew much more than her.

"...We don't know how they exist, or why. These future versions of ourselves are known as the Six Heralds of the Estuary, of the Six Plagues. And two of them are here, on the island - the future version of you, and the future version of Effie."

He lingered for a moment before adding:

"We also don't know how the two of them ended up here. My theory is that they were exiled to Wind Flower to contain their Flaws, but... it's just conjecture."

Jet's face remained impassive. She nodded silently and did not say anything about his indirect castigation of her Flaw.

even the

a quiet sigh and continued explaining things to Cassie. The blind girl was listening to him attentively, seemingly not having trouble with digesting the incredible amount of information. From time to

found the Hollow Butterfly, Sunny had already shared the most important pieces of knowledge.

here. For now, I have found no way to get to her and return to

Nephis, and Jet

a few moments of silence,

you considered leaving the island with Jet and returning to the loop from the

he shook his head and said in a

it's only called north because that's how I drew the map. In reality, I have no idea which side of the island faces which direction. Navigating to Effie's side won't be

expression turned

the vortex - even if we fly above it, the winds would certainly throw us around. We might be able to get back to the island, but not to a landing zone of our choosing. We have gotten incredibly lucky the first time, actually. That beach where we landed is

Sunny sighed.

of the day, when the Crown of Twilight provides me

a

lot about most Nightmare Creatures here. Some of them, unbelievably, we have even defeated. So why do you say that there

remained silent for a few

weakest and most vulnerable of them, or those that our powers directly counter. The rest are too dreadful for

see, so she was simply pretending to look at the map. She seemed to have developed a habit of imitating the actions of those who had sight, in order to not make the people around her feel

reality, she was actually seeing the map through the

hesitated, then added with a bit of hope

with the detailed knowledge of the loop. Now that

not answer for a

she slowly shook her

"No. It won't change."

was taken aback. He stared at her