Sunny crossed his arms.
"It's not very complicated. Actually, I got the idea from that ancient fellow Neph likes to talk about. We're going to build…"
He took a dramatic pause, and then said with a mysterious smile:
"... a trojan ass."
However, their reaction was not what he had expected. Both girls blinked, then stared at him with complicated expressions. Well, Cassie did not stare, since she was blind, but her face was exactly the same as Changing Star's.
Strange.
"...A what now?"
Sunny scratched the back of his head, somewhat embarrassed, and cleared his throat.
"Uh… did I use the wrong word? I thought that Odysseus guy built a wooden animal? A… uh… donkey?"
Nephis raised a hand and put it on her forehead, closing her eyes.
'Weird. Does she have a headache?'
"Uh, are you alright?"
She sighed deeply, then said in a flat tone:
"A horse. It was a horse…"
***
The next day, they returned to the place of the battle between the carapace legion and the centipede monsters. A few days earlier, they had lured a carapace centurion here to ambush it, but ended up causing a massive confrontation between the two tribes of Nightmare Creatures.
The carcasses of some of the monsters were still there, buried slightly in the mud.
Of course, there was no meat left on their skeletons. The inhabitants of the labyrinth were for the most part carrion eaters, after all.
However, the three Sleepers were not interested in meat. They came for something else.
Stopping in front of the centurion's empty shell, cleaned of any flesh by some unknown beasts, he looked at the black and crimson carapace in satisfaction.
Nephis walked over and stood by his side, an unreadable expression on her face.
"Is this what you wanted?"
Sunny smiled.
"Yeah, exactly. I knew that nothing would be insane enough to chew on the chitin, but… in this place, you never know. I wasn't sure about its condition."
But the condition was good.
In fact, it was perfect.