Shadow Slave

Sunny had been really exhausted after the long battle. However, due to the [Blessing of Spirit] and the [Blessing of Flesh] enchantments of the Shroud of Dusk, he only needed a few short hours to recover from the heavy fatigue.

He woke up feeling rested and refreshed... but also strangely forlorn. Sunny had not dreamed in a long while, but tonight, he did. The dream had already disappeared from his memory, but the feeling of sorrow and loss remained, pressing at his heart.

He let out a sigh.

'I actually had a nightmare... wow. As if the waking world is not nightmarish enough, already.'

Sunny was in a subdued and contemplative mood. Before falling asleep, he had been thinking about how to use the enchantment of the Mirror of Truth. Now that he had woken up, however, he found his mind drifting to its description.

No matter how he looked at it, the conversation between Weaver and Ariel was really too strange. Especially the words Weaver had whispered at the end...

'You wanted to be free of the truth, so you didn't deserve it.'

Why would the Demon of Fate, who was known to weave countless lies, admonish Ariel for discarding the truth?

Unexpectedly, Sunny thought of the Sin of Solace. Not its enchantments, and not even its description, but the name of the cursed sword itself.

Why was solace a sin, exactly?

The description of the Shroud of Graceless Dusk spoke about how the sybils found salvation and solace within the Tomb of Ariel. However, in the end, they too were destroyed. Dusk had been the last of them.

The [Hideous Truth] enchantment of the Sin of Solace, meanwhile, was supposed to grant revelations to those who succumbed to madness. Revelations of truth, which Ariel had described as the most hideous thing in the world and the source of cruel torment.

So... wasn't Ariel himself the sinner, then? He had committed a sin by seeking solace in forgetting the truth.

as the Demon of Dread, and felt contempt for those who squandered it. Perhaps there was more to this

In any case...

the

terrible about knowing when people lied? However, with that knowledge came the knowledge of truth... Kai, just like Ariel, was cursed to learn many things that he would rather

also be forced to

Sunny raised his eyebrow.

'Oblivion, huh?'

was mentioned the least. In fact, Sunny would have never even known of his... hers... their existence if not for Noctis, who had mentioned the Demon of Oblivion once in passing, saying that

remembering the fact of Oblivion's existence

The eccentric sorcerer had been close to Aidre, the blessed of

by coincidence, was the god of

his face with a

'Ah, what a mess.'

was he

ah! Oblivion, I was thinking of the Demon of

how, exactly, had Ariel retrieved the memories of truth out of

bit suspicious that he had not known the source of his

but he felt that there were actually not two, but three daemons somehow connected to the black pyramid - the Demon of Dread, the Demon of

it was simply the result of him just dreaming about something

Spring and drank some water. After that, he silently

so he could not pass up the opportunity to try and glean some

the shadows prowled the army camp, he thought about the [Searching Reflection] enchantment one more time

not taken a good look