As soon as the strange crow appeared, Sunny was ready to kill it. Summoning the Moonlight Shard would have only taken a split second, and a swift strike of his armored fist was going to do the job just as well.
If it was an ordinary bird, of course. Which he seriously doubted.
He did not expect the crow to speak, though.
"Sah-nee! Sah-nee!"
'...Is it calling my name?'
Sunny temporary postponed his plans of killing the crow and stared at it for a bit. The crow tilted its head and stared back.
"Sah-nee!"
He blinked, then shifted his vision and looked into the bird's soul. Sunny expected to see an orb of repulsive darkness, but what he saw instead were two radiant cores. The crow was an Awakened Monster... however, it was not a Nightmare Creature.
'Is it an Echo, or am I losing my mind? Again?'
He hesitated for a little while, then said cautiously:
"Yes, I am Sunny."
The bird jumped closer with a satisfied look, shook its entire body to get rid of flakes of ash clinging to the black feathers, and then cawed again.
"Jet! Jet!"
A spark of hope ignited in Sunny's heart. He studied the crow some more, then leaned closer and whispered:
"Did Master Jet send you?"
The small monster bobbed its head up and down several times.
"Jet! Send!"
Sunny closed his eyes for a moment, inhaling deeply.
'So she did not forget about me after all, huh...
The crow appeared to be Soul Reaper's Echo, which she had sent to find Sunny. It felt... nice... to be remembered. However, he was not sure how the black bird was supposed to help him, if that was Jet's intention at all.
messenger to deliver new orders? Someone to guide him to Davis and his cohort
for a
send you to find
small monster jumped a couple
"Crow! Help!"
Echo was meant to assist him, somehow. Sunny
you going to help me? Are you going to lead me
bird silently shook
"Why not?"
crow tilted its
"Da-vees! Dead..."
a heavy sigh. So, Pride was gone... his men probably hadn't made it out of Erebus Field, either. He did not know the cold man too well, but the loss of a full cohort of Irregulars still hit
of linking up with another powerful Master were
the Irregulars had suffered from the start of
that any of them are still
their captains, were elites among elites. But with how unreasonably dreadful the Chain of Nightmares was turning out to
had all but died just
Soul Reaper was still
at the small bird, he asked
supposed to help me,
crow flapped
"Crow! Show!"
Sunny frowned.
"Show what?"
him for
"Crow! Show!"
Then, it added:
"Sah-nee! Follow!"
wants me to
not have too much trust in the mere Awakened Monster's abilities, but if Master Jet had sent
he did not want to think it aloud, the convoy's situation was more or less hopeless. With failing vehicles and an ocean of NighLinare Creatures surrounding them, the chances that he would be able to keep the refugees alive were
Sunny sighed, then nodded.
give me a bit of time to get
crow stared at him for a bit,
"Hur-ry!"
need to remind
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