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

the direction from which the voice was coming. It was just…

tensed, then asked

to? Then what are you

a few moments, then

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell

in lost in

darkness let out a

Not in the Sky

run down his spine, it

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

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 in the

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

Or something worse...

converse. The Lost, from what Sunny knew, were just like any other Awakened in the Dream Realm. It was just that they couldn't return to the

not were disembodied voices coming from

ready to… do something to protect himself, if need be, and

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

lingered for some time, that answered with a bit

is a good

on that answer, but that seemed to

Aren't you going

voice suddenly

into the Sky Below? This is a very

couple of times, then

am not so much 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. So, I

Then, he frowned.

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

for a