Shadow Slave

Sunny shuddered.

The voice he heard… was not his own. It sounded pleasant and calm, and seemed to have come from the darkness of the Sky Below itself.

'...Have I finally lost it?'

His first thought was that he had gone crazy again and was now hearing things.

His second thought was much less comforting…

'Damnation!'

Had he summoned some unholy titan from the depths of the Sky Below, after all?!

Sunny outstretched one hand, ready to manifest the Cruel Sight, but then hesitated.

If the owner of the voice was not a figment of his imagination, but some harrowing being of the void, was it really wise to agitate it? Would the silver blade even do anything against it?

'Calm down. Calm down. Maybe you just imagined the whole thing…'

As if to answer his thoughts, the void laughed softly.

"Ah, my apologies. I seem to have startled you."

Sunny gulped.

The pleasant voice seemed to belong to a young man, but no matter how hard he looked into the darkness, he couldn't see anyone… or anything… nearby.

He was reminded of his first meeting with Kai, only this time... this time, things were much more frightening.

"N—no worries. I just… didn't expect to hear another human's voice here. You, uh… you are a human… right?"

The void was silent for a while, then answered in a neutral tone:

used to be a

the voice was

then asked

Then what are you

disappeared for a few

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell does

As in lost in

darkness let out

Not in the Sky

Sunny felt cold shivers run down his spine, it hesitantly

of the Lost. My body in the

One of the Lost…

of these people, although he had never met one in person. Just like there were Hollow — people whose souls were destroyed, leaving an empty body behind — there were also the Lost. People whose bodies had somehow died in the real world, leaving their souls stranded in the Dream Realm. There wasn't a lot of them, since most of the time the soul perished shortly after the body had, but

made Sunny relax a little… not that he had any reason to believe that

Or something worse...

that didn't explain how they were able to converse. The Lost, from what Sunny knew, were just like any other Awakened in the Dream Realm. It was

certainly were not were disembodied voices coming from

slightly, ready to… do something to

to hear that. But how is it that I am able to hear your voice, but can't

some time, that answered with a bit

is a

patiently for him to expand on that answer, but that seemed to be

you going to

the voice suddenly

into the Sky Below? This is

couple of

am not so much descending into the Sky Below as I am falling into it. I got stuck on an island because of the

Then, he frowned.

dangerous place? Why is it dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous anywhere in

lingered for a while, then sighed