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:

I used to be a

the direction from which the voice was coming. It

tensed, then

Then what

for a few moments, then sighed.

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell

As in lost in

darkness let out

in the Sky

run down his spine,

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 hope that

One of the Lost…

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

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

Or something worse...

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

not were disembodied voices coming from

ready to… do something to protect himself,

to hear that. But how is it that I am able to hear your

some time, that answered with

a

expand on that answer, but that seemed to be

Aren't you going to

voice

you descending into the Sky Below? This is a

a couple of

descending into the Sky 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.

Then, he frowned.

dangerous? I haven't seen anything

for a while, then sighed with