Shadow Slave

1530 Blessing of Misfortune

Sunny was restless.

Cassie had survived, which brought him indescribable joy. He would have been… broken, if she had perished in Twilight. Nephis would have never forgiven herself for causing the death of her best friend, either.

Not to mention that Effie and Jet would have been killed, as well, making the heartbreaking tragedy simply unbearable.

So, it was the epitome of wonderful that Cassie had survived.

But how had she survived?

He did not know.

It was close to impossible for her to be driven all the way to the limits of the city by accident. Which meant that she had fought her way there on purpose.

Which meant that she knew what would happen.

…Which was also impossible.

Not even because Cassie would have shared such precious information with them, allowing the cohort to come up with a better plan, but simply because she was not capable of perceiving the past and the future in the Tomb of Ariel. She had told them so herself — all Cassie saw in her visions, ever since entering the Nightmare, was darkness.

That was what saved her from sharing the fate of the sybils, who had all been Defiled by the visions of the Estuary. Here in the Tomb of Ariel, Cassie was blind to the future and the past. That was her saving grace.

She could not have known what would happen in Twilight. Otherwise, she would have been Defiled — and she wasn't Defiled. Sunny knew that because he could see Cassie's soul, and because she was still a carrier of the Nightmare Spell.

she had to have

made no sense at

Aletheia's Island. That Cassie could have been able to remember the previous cycles of the Great River, just like

make

for the same reason — if she was, Sunny would have been able to see the darkness of Corruption in her soul, and

gnawed at him more and more with each

that fate had played a trick on them. It was almost impossible for Cassie to have found herself near the gates of Twilight when the explosion happened — but only almost. She must have gotten

no stranger to witnessing extremely improbable events. His entire life was full of them due to his [Fated] Attribute. This time, they must have received a blessing of fortune. There was no other sensible

And still, still…

restless,

weaving. He found himself glancing at

spy on the blind girl secretly — because she could have been watching the world through his eyes, and would be aware of him

alarmingly so. She usually kept to herself, but not to the point

supporting the cohort from behind and stepping forward if there was a need. When everything was calm, she rested and

course, Sunny did not know what she was doing when nobody was watching.

Well, actually… he could.

every move. However, as far as Sunny knew, while Cassie could use her Ascended Ability on the members of the cohort, she could not

see through his eyes, if she wished to, but she could not see what he saw through the

could send one of the shadows to observe the blind girl, just in case there was something strange going on with

he wasn't sure that it was an appropriate

trust others, so he cherished it greatly. Being able to trust, and receiving trust in return — those were intangible, but

any harm, he would be breaking trust with her. Their relationship was complicated and tumultuous, and they had endured a

Sin of Solace kept whispering into his ear, fanning the flames of Sunny's paranoia. In fact, the sword wraith did not whisper, but was incredibly loud