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:

human? I used to be a human once, I

the direction from which the voice was coming. It was just… there, somehow.

then asked

what

voice disappeared for a few moments, then sighed. Finally,

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell

As in lost

darkness let out

in the

run down his spine, it hesitantly

to say that I am one of the Lost. My body in the waking world was destroyed,

One of the Lost…

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,

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

Or something worse...

knew, were just like any other Awakened

they certainly were not were disembodied voices

his weight slightly, ready to… do something to protect himself,

it that I am able to hear your voice, but

lingered for some time, that answered with

is a

answer, but that seemed to

you going

voice suddenly

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

blinked a couple of times,

stuck on an island because of the Crushing, and sadly,

Then, he frowned.

dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous anywhere

lingered for a while,