Shadow Slave

Sunny hesitated for a few moments, then looked at Kai and said with determination.

"Let's go."

Kai nodded and followed the four-armed demon, pushing forward his bandaged body with visible effort. Seeing his friend's suffering, Sunny gritted his teeth.

The archer, meanwhile, glanced at him with a grim expression, and then said in his new, unfamiliar and ugly voice:

"Sunny… I have one question. Can you answer it?"

Sunny slowed down and turned to him, a deep scowl contorting the bestial lines of his face.

"Of course. What is it?"

Kai remained silent for a bit, then asked cautiously:

"Uh… where, exactly, are we going?"

Sunny blinked a couple of times, then tilted his head a little.

"Oh, right. Where else? We are going to talk to Noctis!"

With that, he turned around and continued walking toward the immortal sorcerer's residence.

The archer hurried to catch up, then said in a stifled tone:

"Ah… that Noctis? The immortal Transcendent? Blessed of the Moon, Crimson Beast of Twilight, Chain Lord of the Kingdom of Hope, and all that?"

glanced at him, then

though… he is indeed terrifying,

were standing guard outside, their indifferent faces staring at them with hollow stillness. Noticing Sunny,

them entered and

"What the hell…"

deep meditation, if

floor and yawned, causing all the amphoras to fall down

did I say that out loud? No, surely not… I am too wise and courteous to make a rude remark like that, of course… nice to meet you, whoever you are!

without a trace. Then,

what do you owe the

wasn't it supposed

then glanced at Kai, who was staring at the immortal sorcerer with an inexorable expression on his burned, disfigured face. Finally, he

remember the friends I told you about?

stared at Kai, blinked a couple of times, then took

this is one of the friends that you were supposed to find after visiting an island that doesn't exist, despite not knowing how they look, where they are, and what they are

Sunny smiled.

This is Nightingale, my dear friend. A man with a voice of an angel,

him a sidelong glance, then bowed slightly and forced out

to meet you,

looked right and left, then shook

jest. Angels are not something to

the symbol of the moon on

found one of your

for a

to find two more friends for that.

the day. But he needed the sorcerer's help and his knowledge to find and retrieve Effie from the