Shadow Slave

There was a black dot in the sky, far in the distance, slowly moving in the direction of the dark island. At first, Sunny felt a glimmer of hope ignite in his heart as he remembered a similar situation from the past.

That time, it had turned out to be Kai.

But, this time...

This time, his intuition was ringing alarm bells, and a cold feeling of dread crept from somewhere to grip him with icy claws.

Sitting on the Shadow Chair with his legs crossed, Sunny leaned back and sighed.

"...Crap."

With that, he exploded with a flurry of activity.

First, Sunny dismissed his precious chair and dashed toward the middle of the island. At the same time, he sent a mental command to Saint.

Nephis and she were currently engaged in a furious sword fight. Light and darkness were intertwined in a shimmering whirlpool of sharp steel, and the graceful knight's onyx figure was starkly contrasted against the rippling white tunic and alabaster skin of her slender opponent.

Following Sunny's order, Saint froze. The tip of Neph's sword stopped a split second later, hovering millimeters away from the slit of her visor.

Nephis frowned, then retracted her sword and looked around.

There was a shadow on a rock outcropping that protruded from the ground a few meters away. It seemed to belong to a young man, and was currently waving its arms in the air while pointing at the sky.

She swiftly turned around and looked up, then dashed away a moment later.

'That's done...'

tarnished silver. The scrawny figure of Imp could be seen

"Stand up, buddy!"

opened his eyes and stared at Sunny in confusion, then awkwardly tried to rise to his feet. However, outweighed by his full stomach, Imp lost

don't have time for

down, grabbed the weakly struggling fiend, and hoisted

'What... the hell...'

the

a befuddled

the little fiend down. Then, he threw one more look at the sky and, noticing that the black dot had already drawn

of the fissure as they desperately tried to calm down their breathing. Saint and Fiend

was there as well, hiding within the deep darkness enveloping the bottom of

surface decorated with mesmerizing patterns. It was another one

the amphora was going to

to leave its

was the wrong

not someone Sunny would ever entrust an important matter to, the next in seniority had to go. So, the creepy guy was currently hiding a few meters away

Solace was keeping it company with

into an emerald flute, and he covered them with a

"I... I see it."

him intently, then asked

"What is it?"

lingered for a

his expression turned

"It's a... butterfly."

afar, it seemed like an

long, seemingly fragile legs that ended in sharp points, and two enormous, faceted eyes that were like orbs of pure darkness. Between them was a disturbingly long, oily-black beak, which was currently bent into a spiral like an elephant's trunk. Two antennae rose from

that, the butterfly was at