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.
to guide him to Davis and
hesitated for a
Master Jet send you to find
monster jumped a couple
"Crow! Help!"
was meant to assist him, somehow. Sunny tried not to get too
me? Are you
black bird silently shook its head, making
"Why not?"
tilted its
"Da-vees! Dead..."
made it out of Erebus Field, either. He did
mention that Sunny's hopes of linking up with another
casualties the Irregulars had suffered from the start of the campaign. His
of them are still
Irregulars, and especially their captains, were elites among elites. But with how unreasonably dreadful the Chain of Nightmares was turning out to be,
all but
Reaper was still out there,
face. Looking back at the small bird, he asked in
supposed
crow flapped its
"Crow! Show!"
Sunny frowned.
"Show what?"
stared at him for a
"Crow! Show!"
Then, it added:
"Sah-nee! Follow!"
me to
the mere Awakened Monster's abilities, but if Master Jet had sent it, then
and an ocean of NighLinare Creatures surrounding them, the chances that he would
Sunny sighed, then nodded.
give me a bit of time to get my people
at him for a
"Hur-ry!"
don't need to
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