Shadow Slave

Sunny gritted his teeth and groaned, feeling his whole body being slowly crushed by the monstrous chieftain of the Barrow Wraiths. One of his arms was pressed against his body, and the other one was, too… but just barely.

If only he could free it…

But no matter how hard he tried, the tyrant's hold was just too strong.

…Back in the gymnasium, the terrifying beast was lunging at the defenseless children. Its maw was wide open, the red shine of the ghostly flames burning in its eyes reflecting from the jagged, sharp fangs.

It was flying directly at Rain, moments away from closing its jaw on her throat.

She felt paralyzed by fear, desperately wishing to run, but unable to move.

Was this how she was going to die? No, no… it couldn't be!

But it was...

Suddenly, a spark of a strange, dark emotion ignited in Rain's heart.

'Die? No… not like this… I refuse!'

She was holding a sword, was she not?

Even if that thing was going to devour her, Rain was determined to die fighting, just like she had been taught to. She was going to remain human, not a cowering animal only good enough to be the stronger beast's prey.

She owed that much to her parents, at least.

Knowing full well that her dull training sword was not going to stop a Nightmare Creature, Rain stubbornly made a motion to raise it. Even though her mind was panicked and her thoughts scattered, the body remembered countless hours of practice…

Not that it was going to do her any good.

could see every harrowing detail of its hideous snout and frothing maw. There was

'Unfair! This is unfair…'

appeared in her mind, as it had undoubtedly appeared in the

then, something strange

two beautiful magenta lights ignited in the darkness to the side of the lunging

the shadows and easily sliced through the abomination's neck, separating

then appeared and swatted the headless body away from Rain, not allowing even

wearing menacing black armor stepped out of the darkness, two ruby flames

never seen someone so

indifferent calmness, and then turned around to easily pierce another hound with her stonelike sword, then sever one more in half with a swift, vicious strike. It was as though the flesh of

just killed three Nightmare

only that, but she also killed them in the span of a second, with a confident, relaxed

'Who… who is she?'

knew what she was doing, she

"Who are you?"

simply stood between the children and the advancing monsters, her back straight and solid

back, feeling as if nothing was going to

suddenly appeared in

menacing black knight was a human, a

I want to be strong, someday. Strong like

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brought closer and closer to the three burning red eyes, and as he did, it felt as if life itself was being sucked out of him, his mind balancing on the verge of breaking

'What… the hell…'

employ to wrestle free. A Memory he could summon, an

no matter how hard he

vision was slowly starting to

I need

were free, but they were not. He could have turned the Mantle of the Underworld too heavy for the tyrant to lift, but it was already as heavy as the [Feather of Truth] allowed, weighing

to panic, and then… a subtle change suddenly happened