Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2497

Chapter 2497 The Ones Who Walk Away

Hearing that, Saint finally looked away from the vista of the drowning city outside the window. She stared at Morgan coldly for a few moments, then turned to glance at Sunny.

A faint crease appeared on her brow.

Even if she did not say anything, Sunny could imagine what she was thinking…

'Enough is enough. Be happily crazy together all you want, but if you start discussing plans of assassinating someone, I am calling the police!'

'...Wait. He is the police.'

Sunny cleared his throat and focused on the road.

'She is not wrong.'

He remained silent for a while, then asked in a neutral tone:

"Is that how you ended up locked in an asylum? You tried to kill the other Mordret?"

Morgan pursed her lips, then let out a sigh.

"Yes. Sadly, I failed."

Her expression grew a little wistful.

"Ki Song might have found out about my brother's Flaw and where he had hidden it, but she did not know a lot about the Great Mirror, let alone about what is hidden on its other side. So, finding myself in Mirage City was quite a… novel experience. Suddenly becoming mundane again was a difficult transition, as well."

Morgan looked at her hands.

"Plus, I was severely wounded while trying to sneak past the Cursed Demon you had deposited in True Bastion. Soul damage, mental damage… you name it. I was in rough shape, and Mordret — the real Mordret — was on my heels. So, I might have acted a little hasty."

Her expression soured.

"Killing the most powerful man in Mirage City as a mundane person turned out to be more difficult than I expected. He is protected incredibly well, with an army of bodyguards following him day and night — both in plain view and hidden. Well, anyway, he survived. I thought I'd be disposed of right there and then, but he must have grown attached to my false self… he looked quite distressed, even."

Morgan scoffed.

"You'll find it hard to believe, but I did not end up in that mental hospital because he wanted to get rid of me quietly. There were no nefarious reasons behind his decision to commit me to a psychiatric facility whatsoever — rather, he seemed to harbor genuine hope that I would be fixed and return to how my counterpart was before."

She shook her head.

"That guy… something is not right with him. He is not quite as twisted as the real one, but he is definitely not entirely there."

Sunny smiled crookedly.

"You do remember that you just escaped from a mental hospital? Should you really be going around calling people insane?"

Morgan chuckled.

"Fair. "

Sunny lingered for a few moments.

"You seem to have escaped quite easily, though. I suspect that you could have left that place whenever you wanted. So why did you stay?"

She shrugged.

"Because for a while, it was the safest place for me to be. The other Mordret might have spared me, but the real one was still out there, determined to finish what he had started during the Battle of the Black Skull. I was laying low and gathering information about Mirage City… until my fortress suddenly wasn't that safe anymore. It was time to leave."

Sunny frowned.

"Wait, but how did you regain your sense of self, to begin with? There was no Effie around to make you remember. Was it because you were the ruler of Bastion, at some point?"

Morgan smiled, then shook her head.

"No… it was because I killed my reflection a long time ago."

Sunny raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

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