Shadow Slave

It took Sunny some time to find his way back to the cathedral. With the approach of the dawn, the Nightmare Creatures that hunted at night grew restless. He had to be especially careful as he lurked through the narrow streets, keeping to the darkest patches of shadow.

Even though there was no moon or stars in the lightless night of the Forgotten Shore, many of the monsters here had their own ways of perceiving shapes moving through the darkness. Their ability to see in the dark was somewhat offset by Sunny's [Child of Shadows] Attribute, which allowed him to become indistinguishable from any shadow that he dove in.

However, he still had to be cautious. In this cursed place, nothing was ever certain — except for danger, death, and terror.

Some time later, he climbed the familiar pillars of the cathedral and appeared on its vast roof. Walking on the wide ridge separating two slanting expanses of ancient tiles, he approached Kai, who was standing nervously some distance away.

The beautiful young man was grasping a longbow made of horn in his hands, staring into the darkness with a tense expression on his pale face. Sunny stopped a few steps away from him and looked at that bow for a long time.

'There's not much time left.'

To avoid getting an arrow between his eyes, Sunny decided to announce his arrival with a gentle greeting:

"Hey, Kai. I'm here."

The archer turned around with a startled expression and raised a hand, as though trying to summon his lantern. However, he thought better of it, afraid to attract unwanted attention. Instead, Kai gulped and whispered:

"Lower your voice! What if that Fallen Devil hears us?"

Sunny blinked.

'Oh, right. He's a very carefull person.'

Which was a great personality trait to have, as far as he was concerned. The more paranoid, the better. Smiling inwardly, he said:

"Relax, he won't."

at him with doubt,

"Are you sure?"

gave him

"Yes."

reason behind this confidence, but,

means that he also knows when they're telling the truth. And since I can only tell the truth, he can pretty much believe everything I say without the need to

that

cautiously looked

are we going

too far away from them and answered

climb into that hole and retrieve something from the temple. You just wait

Kai's eyes widened.

you crazy? What

couldn't help but fantasize about slaughtering the damn creature for

'The day will come!'

the present situation,

at hiding. As long as I know who I'm dealing with, they won't be able to

the hard way. Actually, it was the bastard who taught him that even concealment of

you only needed to receive

at him with a

"What?"

young man shook his

an awesome Ability. I wish I had an Ability like

and uttered through

want to hide your perfectly symmetrical face anyway? Tired of being

Kai sighed.

like that. How did