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

he slept, and there was nothing he could do about

the treasure chest beneath

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

false stars shimmered

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

assumed them to be correct, that

on the end of the golden String of Fate, but had

body was safely hidden in the luxurious sleeping pod in the basement of his house. The pod would keep it alive for months, so Sunny was not too worried about

Would anyone miss him?

the Dream Realm, and even if none of them had been 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

went in and out of

think that he was avoiding her,

darkness, Sunny realized that no one was really going to care that he was gone. So many things had changed, but

look at the beautiful glass bottle in his hand, Sunny remained motionless for a

I have my coins, at

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one functioning hand, Sunny summoned

them were plummeting down with incredible speed, his body

fall was going to increase exponentially, which meant that

the wind — or rather, the air moving past him as he fell through it — it meant that the speed of