Chapter 134: Fall From Grace
As Sunny and the treasure chest plunged through the skies into the boundless black abyss, pieces of the shattered island pursued them. The Crushing was slowly growing weaker, but it was still strong enough to kill most Awakened.
If not for the power of his shadows, Sunny would have been long dead. And even with it, he was much closer to becoming a corpse than he would have wished to be. His whole body was bruised, bloodied, and in pain.
...Which he could see very clearly, because, in addition to being terribly banged up, Sunny was also currently completely naked.
’What a... glorious sight. Just kill me already!’
He had dismissed the Puppeteer’s Shroud to absorb the Shadow Essence spent on it’s summoning, and had none of it left to manifest the armor again. The last drops had been spent to summon the Dark Wing.
As the result, Sunny found himself falling into the Sky Below atop a lop-sided treasure chest while wearing nothing but his pack and the strip of leather holding his broken arm in place. His only hope right now was that nobody would suddenly appear to save the day and see him in this state.
He would rather plunge into the Tear than live through that embarrassment.
Well... not really.
’I take it back. Somebody, please descend from the skies and carry me away in your arms. I won’t mind! No, really!’
But no one came to his rescue. Dodging the heavy slabs of shattered stone and desperately trying to glide through the field of debris, Sunny slowly pushed the chest toward the empty expanse of the Tear and prayed that nothing would damage his fragile cloak.
It was having enough trouble obeying his commands already.