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 human once, I

direction from which the voice

then asked

to? Then what are

a few moments, then sighed. Finally,

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell does he

As in lost in the

let out

Not in the

Sunny felt cold shivers run down his spine, it

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,

One of the Lost…

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

was one of these lost souls made Sunny relax a little… not 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 in the Dream Realm. It

were not were disembodied voices

slightly, ready to… do something to protect himself,

that I am able to hear

that

is a good

for him to expand on that answer, but that seemed to be it. A bit irritated,

Aren't you going

the voice suddenly

are you descending into the Sky Below? This is

a couple of times,

Below as I am falling into it. I got stuck on an island because of the Crushing, and sadly, that island broke off its chain. So,

Then, he frowned.

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

lingered for a while, then