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."

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

Sunny groaned inwardly.

honorifics? I bet I'm younger than

young man imprisoned in the

you really are

feeling that he

"Yes. I really am."

a dozen seconds

monster, but that's not exactly something a human would be able to do. Maybe you should

Sunny sighed.

walk around the city at night because my Aspect allows me to hide in the darkness. I can also see through it, too.

young man lingered

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 knowing how to terrorize people, these fellows are not even anywhere near the

horribly malevolent Nightmare Creature. The rest of the story was somewhat easy to believe. Of course, it would take a very special kind of fool to choose the ruins, of all places, to keep a prisoner, but thugs were

seemed to have worked pretty well right until the

this whole thing was about. Just some tiresome human

'How disappointing.'

sort of danger, at least not with regard to this mess. The

"I see. Well… goodbye."

annoyed sigh, Sunny turned around and began to walk away. However, the

you… are you really

Sunny grimaced.

am! I've

young man imprisoned in the well hurriedly

back tonight, I think. If you help me escape, I'll

of his head,

"In what way?"

a short pause, the charming voice returned again, this time

whole stash of soul shards back in the castle. Some might even say that I have a small fortune. Half of it is yours if you get me out

not need the ten shards that the young man was offering. The fact that he had these

would need a suitable proxy. A Sleeper with a

He smiled.

know that you have a