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

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

at the treasure chest

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

down, down below, false stars

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

But if he assumed them to be correct, that

the golden String of Fate, but had to assume that it would take at least a week… much longer than

in the basement of his house.

Would anyone miss him?

ventures into 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 business. They were famous heroes

the habit of keeping a detailed record of who went in and out of the Citadel. The most anyone was going to think about him would be when Cassie arrived from

that he was avoiding her, as he had

boundless darkness, Sunny realized that no one was really going to care that he was gone. So many things had changed, but even more remained just the

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

my coins,

***

Sunny summoned the

both of them were plummeting down with incredible speed, his body felt

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

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