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

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

then

Then what are

a few moments,

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

hell

in lost in

let out

Not in

shivers run down his

I am one of the Lost. My body in the waking world

One of the Lost…

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,

the voice was one of these lost souls made Sunny relax a little… not that he had any reason to believe that

Or something worse...

were able to converse. The Lost, from what Sunny knew, were just like

were not were

something to protect himself, if need be,

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

that answered with a bit of

a good

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

Aren't you going

the voice suddenly

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

blinked a couple of

it. I got stuck on an island because of the Crushing, and sadly, that island broke off its chain. So, I had to jump off.

Then, he frowned.

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

voice lingered for a while, then sighed with