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

realized that he couldn't even pinpoint the direction from which the voice was coming. It was just… there,

tensed, then asked

Then what are you

few

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell does he

in lost in the Sky

darkness let out a

Not in

Sunny felt cold shivers run down his spine, it hesitantly

am one of the Lost. My body in

One of the Lost…

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

Sunny relax a little… not that he had any

Or something worse...

if he was Lost, that didn't explain how they were able to converse. The Lost, from what Sunny knew, were just like any other

certainly were not were disembodied voices coming from

slightly, ready to… do something to protect himself,

that. But how is it that I am able to

voice lingered for some time, that

is a good

to expand on that answer, but that seemed to be it.

you going to

the voice suddenly

you descending into the Sky Below? This is a very dangerous

couple of

it. I got stuck on an island because of the Crushing, and

Then, he frowned.

is it dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous anywhere in this dreadful

for a while, then sighed with