'No, impossible…'
Then…
His eyes widened a little.
Did the bastard decide to go for the kill first, and deal with Sunny later? If so, he had to follow immediately!
Yet…
Somehow, Sunny did not feel like submerging into the nebulous body of the shadow of Condemnation was safe. In fact, everything inside him screamed against it, as if what awaited him inside was a fate far worse than death.
It would be the same for the archer.
Then what was Sunny missing?
Suddenly, a cold chill ran down his spine, and a bad premonition made him shiver.
With no helmet to shield his head, he realized quite quickly what it was that he had missed.
Because his hair was fluttering wildly in the wind.
The wind… the wind had grown much stronger.
'...I'm getting a terrible sense of déjà vu.'
Had he not caught a ride on the shoulder of a giant once, only to be caught in the storm?
No… technically, it was on the neck of a giant.
Turning around, Sunny looked at the horizon.
The breathtaking, radiant maelstrom of the essence tempest was much, much closer than it had been before.
And the wind was only growing stronger.
Suddenly, a tiny spark of silver light shot past Sunny.
And then, another spark shot from his vambrace… this one having nothing to do with essence. It was just a spark produced when something struck the stonelike metal of his armor at great speed.
Something so swift and tiny that he did not even see it,let alone feel the impact.
Sunny stared at his vambrace for a moment, noticing a deep scratch left onit.
'Damn.'
Then, he turned around to run.
But it was already too late.