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

he

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

two of them entered and froze,

"What the hell…"

deep meditation, if not for dozens of empty

then at Kai. Finally, he landed on the floor and yawned, causing all the amphoras to fall down and shatter, sending drops of

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! Welcome… ah, to my

residence to shudder and the shards of the amphoras to disappear without a trace. Then, Noctis walked over to a small table, picked

you

we owe… wait, wasn't it supposed to be the other way

glanced at Kai, who was staring at the immortal sorcerer with an inexorable expression on his burned, disfigured

I am here to deliver some good news. Do you remember the friends I told you

a couple of times, then took a bite

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

Sunny smiled.

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

a sidelong glance, then bowed slightly and forced out

nice to meet you,

sorcerer shuddered and looked right and left, then shook

those creatures again, even in jest. Angels are not something to

briefly touched the symbol of the moon on his

one of

hesitated for a

not. We still need to find two more friends for that.

choice was looking more and more distant by the day. But he needed the sorcerer's help