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.

situation was

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

treasure chest beneath

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

down, down below, false

that he slept for about twelve hours. A bit longer than usual, but he was really

them to

reach the thing on the end of the golden String of Fate, but had to assume that it would take

the luxurious sleeping pod in the basement of his house. The pod would keep it alive for months, so Sunny was

Would anyone miss him?

as long as this one was going to be, they would just assume that he was too lazy to answer their messages and go about their business. They were famous heroes now, after all, with packed schedules and plenty of problems of

out of the Citadel. The most anyone was going to think about him would be when Cassie arrived from the Night Temple, and he wasn't there to help

that he was avoiding

was really going to care that he

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

I have my coins,

***

the rope connecting him to the dead Mimic with his one functioning hand, Sunny summoned the Dark Wing, then cautiously climbed onto the side

incredible speed, his body felt pleasantly light.

of his fall was going to increase exponentially, which meant that at some point his body was bound to be simply torn

that his assumption was wrong. Since he could breathe in the Sky Below and felt the wind — or rather, the air moving past him as he fell through it — it meant that the speed of his fall had a limit dictated by the