Shadow Slave

Sunny's bed trembled slightly, and he felt the wind blowing across the room. Still mostly asleep, he sighed and tried to pull the blanket higher. However, that damned thing was nowhere to be found.

'Where the hell is it…'

Reluctant to let go of sleep, he blindly searched for the blanket. Instead of finding it, though, Sunny suddenly felt his whole bed careen to the side. Startled, he opened his eyes… and saw nothing but darkness surrounding him.

'What the?! Oh… right.'

He wasn't in his small room in the Sanctuary. He was plummeting into a lightless abyss atop the corpse of a Fallen Devil, instead.

Sunny stared into the darkness for a bit.

Then, he yawned.

'Well. At least I slept well.'

Indeed, he was feeling rather refreshed. Most of his aches had either disappeared or grown milder, and even his wounded mind felt soothed. He felt rested, energized, and much better overall.

The only problem was, he was still falling into the endless void of the Sky Below.

Sunny scratched the back of his head, though about this predicament, then summoned the Endless Spring and drank some water. Then, he concentrated and tried to assess the situation.

was absolutely the

nothing, nothing had changed while he slept, and there was nothing he

and stared at the treasure chest beneath him. After a

is just next-level pettiness. Not only did I kill this poor bastard, I even went so far as to take a nap

down, down below, false stars shimmered

by how much of his shadow essence had regenerated, Sunny judged that he slept for about twelve

if he assumed them to be correct, that would mean that he had left the Sanctuary

how long it was going to take to reach the thing on the end of the golden String of Fate, but had to assume that it would take at least a

of his house. The

Would anyone miss him?

they would just assume that he was too lazy

who went in and out of the Citadel. The most anyone was going to think about him would be

think that he was avoiding her, as he had done

in boundless darkness, Sunny realized that no one was really going

hand, Sunny remained motionless for a while, then dismissed it and knocked on

have my

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him to the dead Mimic with his one functioning hand, Sunny summoned the Dark Wing, then cautiously climbed onto the side of the big chest and tried to balance it so that the heavy thing

with incredible speed, his

even make any sense? Yesterday, he had thought that the speed of his fall was going to increase exponentially, which meant that at some

the Sky Below and felt the wind — or rather, the air moving past him as