Shadow Slave

Sunny had to destroy the Sin of Solace before the seeds of Corruption were planted into his soul. If he managed to destroy the wraith before that happened, the scheme the Mad Prince had concocted to come back to life would be thwarted, and Sunny would get to continue existing.

If he failed, the Mad Prince would return, consuming him in the process. 'That vile bastard...'

The sword wraith laughed as he watched him.

"My, oh my. You're not going to do something terrible to me, are you?" Sunny glanced at him darkly, then at the beautiful jian in his hand.

Placing the Guiding Light on the water, he wrapped all six of his shadows around him and grabbed the jade blade, using all his inhuman strength in an attempt to break it against his knee.

The Sin of Solace was not only incredibly resilient, but also incredibly sharp. Despite the Marble Shell, Sunny could not get a good hold of it without losing his fingers... and even if he could, his strength seemed insufficient to shatter the cursed sword.

Even though his muscles felt like they were on the verge of tearing, the jian only bent, but did not break. As soon as Sunny released it, the blade sprung back to its initial, perfectly straight form.

'Maybe... I should try to escape back under the gaze of the lake guardian...'

But no, that would only end in his demise. The Sin of Solace was a part of him, and now that the Estuary Key had been destroyed, the guardian would obliterate them both.

The wraith chuckled, observing his efforts with disdain.

"Pathetic."

Sunny abandoned his attempts to break the jade blade and straightened.

Then, he smiled.

So what if he wasn't strong enough to break the damned sword?

That whole performance was just to satiate his curiosity, anyway.

Before the sword wraith could say anything else, he released his shadows and tossed the beautiful jian away.

A moment later, a hand rose from one of the shadows, catching the cursed sword. Saint stepped out of it, holding it with indifferent grace.

As an Ascended, Sunny might not have been strong enough to shatter the Sin of Solace. But luckily, he had a Transcendent Devil at hand... two of them, even.

It would have been even easier to make Fiend eat the jade blade, but he was worried that the cursed thing would give the ravenous ogre indigestion. So, the job of destroying the sinister Memory fell to Saint.

As the six shadows wrapped themselves around the graceful knight, her ruby eyes blazed with crimson light. The wraith opened his eyes widely.

"Now, wait a second..."

incapable of perceiving him —Saint silently placed the flat of the jade blade against her greave, slowly raised her shield, and then struck

hurricane wind spread from the point of impact, and the

dissipated into a whirlwind of white

Spell whispering into his ear, saying the same words

has been

grimace appeared on his face. Losing Memories

grimace on the

"Argh! Aaah!"

convulsed, screaming, and hunched

a few moments, there was

silence was broken

oh. It seems that breaking the sword... did nothing?

and stared at Sunny with

think that it would

him silently, his

wraith shook his

still be here? Ah, Lost from Light... I am a part of your mind, now.

disappeared from his face, replaced by

was a little bit

Sin of Solace

spend time with you, once again. Granted, what comes won't be pleasant,

that would drive Sunny mad and infect his

took a step forward, coming face-to-face with the startled

whispered into

Only two words.

saying farewell to Cassie

They were:

"Be gone."

as he said

wraith's eyes widened slightly — this

"You..."

then, he

he had

mind was gone, taking the forbidden knowledge of the Void, and

the Mad Prince from ever being

the curse that had plagued him since the early days of the Southern Campaign, Sunny closed his eyes for a moment,