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

"Are you sure?"

gave him

"Yes."

was prepared to explain the reason behind this confidence, but, surprisingly, Kai immediately

people are lying to him. Which 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

to think of it, that

cautiously looked around and

are we going to

not too far away from them and

climb into that hole and retrieve something

Kai's eyes widened.

crazy? What about

about that bastard? Sunny couldn't help but fantasize about slaughtering the damn creature for a few

'The day will come!'

the present

I told you, I'm good at hiding. As long as I know who I'm dealing with, they won't be able to notice me unless I want

the bastard who taught him that even concealment of shadows had its limits. That's how Sunny ended up

only needed to receive

looking at him with a

"What?"

man shook

that… it's an awesome Ability. I wish I had an Ability like that, to be

at him and uttered

can fly! Why would you want to hide your perfectly symmetrical face anyway? Tired

Kai sighed.

that. How did you