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:

to be a human once,

pinpoint the direction from which the voice was

then asked

to? Then what

for a few moments, then sighed. Finally, it

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

hell does

lost in

out a sad

in the

felt cold shivers run down his spine, it hesitantly

spoken to anyone in a long, long time. Instead of lost, It would be more proper to say that I am one of the Lost. My body in the waking world was destroyed, but my soul continues to exist here, in the Dream Realm. I

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 there were

that he

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 Awakened

were not were disembodied voices coming

slightly, ready to… do something to protect himself, if

But how is it that I am able to hear your

voice lingered for some time, that answered

is a

for him to expand on that answer, but that seemed

you going

voice

the Sky Below? This

blinked a couple of times, then

got stuck on an island because of the Crushing, and

Then, he frowned.

is it dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous

voice lingered for a while,