Shadow Slave novel Chapter 785

As Sunny bitterly explored the damage done to his entertainment system by the strange… malfunction… Nephis silently watched him from her stool.

"Doesn't make sense… gone, the projector is completely gone... it was so expensive!"

After a while, he turned to Changing Star with a miserable expression and opened his mouth, then frowned in confusion.

"Wait… is that my shirt?"

Neph shifted a little and then said, her voice even:

"I don't have any clothes."

Sunny stared at her for a few moments, then waved a hand and looked away, forgetting what he was going to say.

"Never mind. You can keep it. We can also order a delivery of anything else you need. I am an incredibly rich entrepreneur, you know!"

He paused, then added with a bit of embarrassment:

"Well, I used to be rich, anyway. These days, I pretty much spend everything on… research."

She tilted her head a little, then suddenly said:

"...The girl you're tutoring visited."

'What?!'

Pretending to be nonchalant, Sunny glanced at Nephis and answered in a neutral tone:

"Oh? Strange. We weren't supposed to have any lessons until a few days from now."

Neph remained silent for a few moments, then looked away with a smile:

? "She is a bright kid. I'm glad you are teaching her."

He studied her expression with a frown.

'What' up with that smile?'

Finally, Sunny shrugged.

"Well, money is money. My lessons aren't cheap."

After that, he sighed, threw the destroyed projector out of his mind, and walked into the kitchen.

"Are you hungry? I can cook something up. My culinary skills have improved a lot, you know! As you should have already noticed…"

It was a strange thing. Back on the Forgotten Shore, Nephis had always been the one in charge of feeding the cohort. Now, their roles seemed to have reversed, in more ways than one.

She deactivated her communicator and said neutrally:

"I could eat. Thank you."

Then, Changing Star frowned slightly and added:

"Oh, but I don't have a lot of time. There is a… a consultation with the government psychiatrist I need to attend shortly. By remote, of course."

Sunny stared at her for a while, then shook his head.

'This is so weird…'

Deciding to prepare something that did not demand a lot of time to make, he took out a pack of ramen, some vegetables, a piece of natural meat, and a pair of eggs.

"I never thought that I would hear something like that from you, of all people. A... psychiatrist, really?"

He started the process of cooking ramen, and added:

"...Was it really that bad?" _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}