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 absolutely the

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

chest beneath him. After a

I kill this poor bastard, I

down, down below, false stars shimmered

of his shadow essence had regenerated, Sunny judged that he slept for about twelve hours. A bit

But if he assumed them to be

it was going to take to reach the thing on the end of the golden String of

the luxurious sleeping pod in the basement of his house. The

Would anyone miss him?

them had been as long as this one was going to be, they would just assume that he was too lazy

of who went in and out of the Citadel. The most anyone was going to think about him would be when Cassie arrived from the Night Temple, and he

she would just think that he was

of the dead treasure chest in boundless darkness, Sunny realized that no one was really going to care that he was gone. So many

long look at the beautiful glass bottle in his hand, Sunny remained motionless for a while, then dismissed it

I have my coins, at

***

a strange aerial dance. Holding onto the rope connecting 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

both of them were plummeting down with incredible speed, his body felt pleasantly light. Sunny thought about

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

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