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

nothing, nothing had changed while he slept, and there was nothing he could do about

and stared at the treasure chest beneath

you think about it, this is just next-level pettiness. Not only did I kill this poor bastard, I even went

false stars shimmered with white

Sunny judged that he slept for about twelve hours. A bit longer than usual,

calculations of his, of course, were very rough. But if he assumed them to be correct, that would mean that he

reach the thing on the end of the golden String of Fate, but had to assume

in the basement of his house. The

Would anyone miss him?

be, they would just assume

record of who went in and out of the Citadel.

was avoiding

dead treasure chest in boundless darkness, Sunny realized that no one was really

look at the beautiful glass bottle in his hand, Sunny remained motionless for a while, then dismissed it and knocked on the lid of

I have my coins, at

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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

of them were plummeting down with incredible speed, his body

thought that the speed of his fall was going to increase exponentially, which meant that at some point

air moving past him as he fell through it —