Nephis/Relationships

## Relatives

* **✞** **Immortal Flame** (Grandfather)
* **✞** **Grandmother**
* **✞** **Smile of Heaven** (Mother): Her mother is one of the Hollow. She became Hollow while pregnant with Nephis. Thus, Nephis was a hollowborn. When Nephis's grandmother was still alive, Nephis made a point of treating her mother's body as nothing but a corpse. But after her grandmother passed away, they were the only ones left.
* **✞** **Broken Sword** (Father)

## Friends

* Sunny
* Cassie

### Sunny

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Sunny is the person who knew her best in the world. He is her companion, friend, and pupil. He is her shadow, her compliant little helper.

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Her first impression of Sunny is that he is a pervert due to the things he did in the Academy. But he managed to wash that reputation away by showing that he was a capable fighter by killing a Carapace Scavenger, an awakened beast, which impressed her. Their time together in the Labyrinth taught him a lesson, that there was strength in numbers that surpassed individual power. They grew so accustomed to each other that she simply assumed that they were going to continue working together after reaching the Dark City.

She was later confronted by Sunny about her actual goals, due to the fact that he knew her well, she was not just trying to help people. She then revealed that while he was learning how to use a sword from her, she was learning how to use people from him. She learned how to be manipulative and vile from him. And for her goals, she was willing to condemn everyone to death. This made Sunny unable to trust her again.

After Sunny came back, she asked him to join their expedition. In the end, she told him, he is one of the two people she trusts in this world. That she only trusts him to have her back. During the expedition, she revealed that the battle technique she taught him was part of her inheritance, leaving Sunny bewildered. She saved him one time from being skewered by a spire messenger, telling Sunny that she can't risk it. After they come back to the Dark City, she asked Sunny for a favor to prevent Caster from getting near her after her fight with Gunlaug. She explained to Sunny that at first, she thought he was the one that was sent to kill her due to many things about him that didn't make sense. On the way back to the castle, she asked Sunny how was his First Nightmare and proceeds to tell him about her First Nightmare.

In their final confrontation at the Crimson Spire, in order for him to leave her behind without showing any mercy, she created a situation that would allow Sunny to be ruthless and cruel. She thought that abandoning him in the Forgotten Shore would be vile, and wrong. Just like leaving a helpless blind girl to die alone would. If she does that, it would be no better than those whom she wants to destroy and become the same as those she hates. Also, she lets Sunny go thinking he still has someone waiting for him in the real world, his sister.

During the time she spent traversing the Dream Realm, she started doubting the memories of her previous life. The only connection she has left to the actual reality is the change of the runes describing Sunny. It was perhaps the only thing that kept her sane even if the things she was were sometimes hard to believe. The impossible Lineage that should not have existed, the divine Memory, the strange essence of his soul, the true nature of the taciturn stone demon and his Flaw. It seemed that Sunny had much more secrets than she had suspected. With the new knowledge, many things made much more sense now. She did hope that he was doing well out there in the real world with Cassie.

During their conversation inside her dream, she told Sunny about her choice to leave him in the real world and not risk his life because she thought it was the right choice. She did it for herself, to spare herself from having to watch him die. She had to protect herself, too.

Nephis kind of admired Mongrel because he is determined to resist the Spell. His will, combat mastery, and wisdom are commendable. But she blushed when Effie whispered to her that Mongrel is Sunny.

Hers and Sunny's fates were entangled the moment they met in front of the Academy gate. They just did not know it at that time.

Sunny and Nephis' relationship, despite being distant due to their choices, remained strong as battle partners. Their bond was forged in battles on the Forgotten Shore, and their ability to act seamlessly was even higher than the unity granted to warriors of Valor by forged swords. They had countless battles together, she had taught him how to wield the sword, while he taught her how to control her soul essence as a Master. Despite their differences, their bond remained unchanged.

Sunny had gone against Nephis' wishes in every intance where it mattered, so he was unsure if she trusted him or if he would have trusted himself. Afterall, he had abandoned her in the Dark City, refused to leave her in the Crimson Spire, and fled again at the grand ball of Clan Valor just to end up by her side. Despite all that, Nephis trusted Sunny.

### Cassie

Cassie is one of the best friends she met on Forgotten Shore.

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She chose to help Cassie in the Forgotten Shore simply because she wanted to. She is so protective of Cassie that when she hears her desperate screams, she radiates coldness and points her sword at Sunny demanding an explanation. Cassie is one of the two people she trusts in this world. Also, Cassie was the one who told her about Sunny's secret in hopes of saving her life. But she hoped that she would never have to use it.

## Enemies

* **✞** **Caster**: He was sent to kill Nephis by the Sovereigns. When Nephis enrolled in the Academy she already knew someone received an order to kill her so he kept him by her side to use him instead.
* **✞** **Gunlaug**: He was the ruler of Bright Castle when they arrived in Dark City. He has done many despicable things but what Nephis cannot forgive about him was that he gave up.
* **Aster, Song, Vale**: They were like aunts and uncles to Nephis before her father died. She also believed that they killed her father.

## Neutral

* **Eurys**: He was the one who offered to guide Nephis out of the underworld. He reminded her of someone she knew.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 210 Shadow of the Past
2. ↑ Chapter 35 A Shadow, a Star and an Oracle
3. ↑ Chapter 41 Strength In Numbers
4. ↑ Chapter 133 Farewell
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 167 Unforgivable
6. ↑ Chapter 168 Outside
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 178 Lost Expedition
8. ↑ Chapter 215 Shapeless
9. ↑ Chapter 260 How To Be A Hero
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 284 Nothing Serious
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 285 Kill Order
12. ↑ Chapter 286 Blessings of the Fire
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 350 End of the Nightmare
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Chapter 500 ...In the Depths of a Nightmare
15. ↑ Chapter 769 Maybe
16. ↑ Chapter 792 Blind Spot
17. ↑ Chapter 808 A Long-Awaited Conversation
18. ↑ Chapter 1195 Battle of the Black Skull (9)
19. ↑ Chapter 1199 Battle of the Black Skull (13)
20. ↑ Chapter 38 Questions in the Dark
21. ↑ Chapter 90 Nightfall
22. ↑ Chapter 338 Rest of the Mongrels
23. ↑ Chapter 127 Abandon All Hope
24. ↑ Chapter 778 In the Shadows
25. ↑ Chapter 750 Home