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:

human? I used to be a human

that he couldn't even pinpoint the direction from which the voice was coming. It was

tensed, then asked

Then what are you

voice disappeared for a few

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell does he

in lost

out a sad

Not in the Sky

Sunny felt cold shivers run

a long, long time. Instead of lost, It would be more proper to say that I am one of the Lost.

One of the Lost…

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 owner of the voice was one of these lost souls made Sunny relax a little… not that he had any reason to believe that the stranger was telling him the truth.

Or something worse...

knew, were just like any other Awakened in the Dream Realm. It was just that they couldn't return to

certainly were not were disembodied voices coming

slightly, ready to… do something to

to hear that. But how is it that I

time, that

a

to expand on that answer, but that seemed to be

Aren't you going to

the voice

the Sky

couple of

falling into it. I got stuck on an island because

Then, he frowned.

I haven't seen anything dangerous

lingered for a while, then