Shadow Slave

Sunny could really understand how bad the situation looked from the perspective of the young man with a beautiful voice.

The only thing that could be worse than approaching a terrifying dark well while thinking that there's an ancient and utterly evil creature hiding inside was to actually be locked inside that terrifying dark well while thinking that some abominable thing was looking down on you from above.

At least Sunny had a chance to escape if things were to turn really bad. The poor guy in the well literally had nowhere to run.

Of course, there was still the possibility that all of this was just a cunning act performed by some incredibly horrifying monster. Sunny had to keep that in mind while exploring the other theory.

'So… if he is indeed a human, how do I make him believe that I'm not a monster?'

That wasn't a very simple task for Sunny. He had never been good at communicating with people in the first place, and three months of complete isolation did not make things any better. In fact, they had made everything worse.

Now, even Sunny sometimes felt uncomfortable when talking to himself.

'Uh… what would Cassie say?'

He cleared his throat.

"Are you a… human? I am too. I am a human, too. We are both… humans."

'Great job, idiot!'

After that abhorrent attempt, Sunny wouldn't be even surprised to find out that he was not, in fact, a human. Who talks like that?

The young man in the well grew silent. Then, he silently said:

"Yeah, it's definitely all over for me. Oh, well. I had a good run, I guess…"

Sunny sighed heavily.

"Stop panicking, you idiot! I really am a human!"

The owner of the charming voice laughed:

"Please forgive me if I don't believe you."

using respectful honorifics, as though recognizing Sunny as an elder. Which was logical, given that he believed him to be an eldritch horror. An

Sunny groaned inwardly.

honorifics? I bet

imprisoned in

you really are

excitement, feeling

"Yes. I really am."

voice returned a dozen seconds

not exactly something a human would be able to do. Maybe you should work on

Sunny sighed.

walk around the city at night because my Aspect allows me to hide in the darkness. I can

young man lingered

for a couple of weeks, trying all kinds of methods to get me to transfer the Memories to them. But I must say, their attempts were very clumsy. In

know what a sasaeng was, so he just assumed that it was some kind of a horribly malevolent Nightmare Creature. The rest of the story was somewhat easy to believe. Of course, it would take a very special kind

worked pretty well right until the moment they had the misfortune of stumbling

what this whole thing was about. Just some tiresome

'How disappointing.'

with regard to this mess. The mystery was solved.

"I see. Well… goodbye."

an annoyed sigh, Sunny turned around and began to walk away. However, the owner of the beautiful voice

you… are

Sunny grimaced.

am! I've told you

man imprisoned in the well

get me out of here? Those guys are not coming back tonight, I think. If you help me escape, I'll make it

back of his head,

"In what way?"

voice returned

a whole stash of soul shards back in the castle. Some might even say

suddenly got an idea. Of course, he did not need the ten shards that the young man was offering.

unnecessary attention when buying Memories with his hoard of soul shards, he would need a suitable proxy. A Sleeper with a lot of shards of his own, one that was

He smiled.

people know that you