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."

given that he believed him to be an eldritch horror. An eldritch horror would technically count as

Sunny groaned inwardly.

you using honorifics? I bet I'm younger

man imprisoned in the

really are

excitement, feeling that

"Yes. I really am."

returned a

have any source of light with you. Please don't get angry, sir monster, but that's not exactly something a human would be able to do. Maybe you should work on your story a bit more next time you venture out to devour innocent

Sunny sighed.

able to walk around the city at night because my Aspect allows me to hide in the darkness. I can also see through it, too. How did you end up in this well,

young man

situations? A bunch of thugs decided to shake me down for my Memories. I politely refused, and here we are. They've been keeping me here 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 terms of

rest of the story was somewhat easy to believe. Of course, it

well right until the moment they had

thing was

'How disappointing.'

at least not with regard to this mess. The mystery

"I see. Well… goodbye."

turned around and began to walk away. However, the owner of the beautiful voice

Are you… are you

Sunny grimaced.

I've told

man imprisoned in

guys are not coming back tonight, I think. If you help me escape, I'll make it worth your

back of his

"In what way?"

pause, the charming voice returned again, this time somewhat

Some might even say that I have a small fortune. Half of it is yours if you get me out of this pit. That's ten shards, at

young man was offering. The fact that

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 indebted to Sunny

He smiled.

that you have a