Shadow Slave

Raising his hand, Sunny gave Aiko and Stev a signal to remain quiet. Then, with a frown, he commanded the shadow to abandon its hiding spot and find the Guards.

'They can't be near us… I would have heard them.'

Then where did the bastards go?

Soon, he had his answer.

The three Guards were in the corridor a hundred or so steps from Sunny's current position, just behind a corner. In a place where they shouldn't have been, since it was way off their previous route.

They were also dead.

Two had their skulls smashed in. Sunny did not know what weapon, tool, or limb was used to kill them, because their Memory armors had already disappeared. It had to have been something capable of piercing through steel, though, because the Guards had been wearing helmets the last time he saw them.

The third was even worse. His throat was torn, seemingly with terribly sharp fangs… to such degree that the young man's head was almost separated from his body. One would expect a sea of blood to come out of such a terrible wound, but in fact, there was surprisingly little of it on the floor.

However, the corpse of the Guard was unnaturally pale, as if devoid of blood completely.

'Curses…'

Sunny felt a cold shiver run through his body.

The shadow cautiously looked around, but didn't notice anyone else present on the scene of the gruesome slaughter.

Aiko and Stev were staring at Sunny with alarmed expressions. After waiting for several minutes, he finally relaxed a little and motioned for them to follow.

"What happened?"

He hesitated for a few seconds, then said in an even tone:

"The Blood Lord has just been here."

Their eyes widened.

"That fiend?! Then why aren't we running?!"

Sunny glanced at them with a calm expression.

worry, it's already

however, he was anything

his shadow and slaughter

of an abomination is

of them had to pass the place where the Guards had been killed to reach their destionation. Soon, the smell of blood hit their nostrils,

the Guards looked even more gruesome in person. Sunny frowned slightly, while Aiko and Stev had to struggle to keep the contents of

"Gods… poor bastards…"

was hoping to notice something that his shadow had missed to give him a clue of what type

three Guards had been in this corridor

seems to be really scared. Just imagine what is going to happen if

a little, then

he suddenly noticed something glint in the pool of blood. The shadow had not noticed it earlier because there

piece of metal, then brought it close to his eyes to take

in the shape of a flower blossom. It wasn't a charm Memory, though… just a simple piece of

is that thing doing

he lingered for a few moments

get out of

***

creating the border of Changing Star's territory. The Sleepers standing watch were surprised to see Sunny come back

Aiko raised an eyebrow.

inspect us?

at each other,

we would.

petite young

in very high regard

gave a strange look, then coughed with a

conversation with him is, uh… well, you know.

him

supposed to

hurriedly shook his

Uh, I need to inspect the

he made a hasty

out of

led the two newcomers deeper into