Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2461

Chapter 2461 Brave Old World

Sunny swayed, struggling to stay on his feet.

'Ah! D—damnation!'

He was impossibly weak! He was terribly frail! He was beaten and battered, exhausted beyond imagination, and ready to collapse! His body was torturously slow and clumsy, and on top of that, he was limited to only being aware of what was in front of his eyes. The shadows did not respond to his senses, and without them, he felt blind like a bat.

It seemed impossible that anyone could exist in this pitifully powerless, woefully limited, and creepily dull state.

'Wait… isn't that… simply what being mundane felt like?'

Sunny blinked a few times in complete shock.

Right, he was not under some harrowing hex that maimed his body and soul. He was simply reduced to being mundane once again. In fact, he was far stronger, faster, and resilient than he had ever been as a mundane person — after all, he was currently in a somewhat ragged, but still trained and tampered body of a well-fed adult, not that of a malnourished teenager.

He was Detective Sunny of the Mirage City Police Department.

'What the actual…'

Before, his memories seemed like a dream, while the Devil Detective's personality felt like his true self. Now, the positions were reversed — Sunny was himself once again, while the memories of the jaded detective felt like a vague, distant dream.

The senses of his other incarnations were just as vague, as if reaching him through a vast mass of water… or maybe through the silver surface of a great mirror.

He was in a mundane body. He did not have his Aspect or his Attributes, no essence, no cores. His Domain was gone. He did not have his shades and Shadows, either… while his own shadow was not an invaluable helper anymore! It was just silent and unresponsive, following him like a dead thing.

Just a few moments before, this simplistic and inadequate state of existence seemed perfectly normal to him. But now, Sunny felt like he had been crippled — like all his limbs had been severed, and all his senses were dulled!

It felt terrible.

He grabbed Effie's hand desperately and used it as support to keep himself from falling. A low groan escaped from his lips, followed by a stifled curse.

"Curses..."

As Sunny was trying to come to terms with being mundane once again, a perplexed voice resounded above his head.

"Hey there, buddy… are you alright? Mr. Devil Detective?"

Looking up in dismay, Sunny grimaced and spat through gritted teeth: fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

"What damn Devil Detective?! No, I'm not alright! I am… mundane? !"

Effie stared at him in confusion for a couple of moments. Then, her eyes widened.

"Shadow Boy? Is that really you?! You remembered?!"

Sunny let go of Effie's hand and straightened, slowly regaining his composure.

"Stop calling me Shadow Boy, damn it! And… yes, it's me. I did remember. How the hell…"

But before he could finish talking, Effie suddenly pressed her palm against his mouth, shutting him up. Surprise and confusion drained from her eyes, replaced by alarm. Looking around warily, she remained silent for a few moments, and then said:

"Not here. Not where someone can hear us. How about… we go find somewhere more private to talk?"

Sunny frowned, then gestured to the car. It was only then that Effie removed her hand and grinned.

"Well then, let's go, partner! Personally, I — a rookie homicide detective of Mirage PD — am starving. What about you?"

He wanted to retort, but couldn't… because now that he was mundane, he suddenly needed to eat food as sustenance again. So, actually, Sunny was quite hungry too.

'..What a chore.'

"Yeah. I can eat."

She studied him for a moment, then nodded and climbed into the car. Sunny did, as well, finding himself in the driver's seat. A completely unfamiliar control system met him, which he somehow knew how to operate. After spending a few seconds studying the weird PTV's dashboard, Sunny inserted the key into the ignition with a dubious expression, then gave it a tentative turn.

The PTV roared with a level of noise that could only be called obnoxious, vibrated like a trembling animal dying from fear in front of a predator, and spat a thick stream of noxious gas from its back.

Sunny blinked a few times, aghast at the barbarity of this primitive machine, and looked at Effie.

He had already surmised that the odd world they had found themselves in resembled the waking world before the Dark Times, but this… this was an entirely new level of absurdity.

"...Did people really drive these monstrous things?"

Effie arched an eyebrow.

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