Fate's Slave - Shadow Slave X Honkai Star Rail

”Princess Dan Heng! Where are you?! I won’t let that immortal fiend lay a single hand on you, my lady!”

After receiving Kafka’s very helpful directions, ’Sunny’ swung all the way back to Fyxestroll Garden — better known as New York City. It didn’t quite look like how he, Spiderman, remembered it, but times have changed. The moment he put on that mask, he accepted that great power came with great responsibility, and nobody was going to change that!

Anyone who dared would get a taste of his webs...

Two green flames suddenly rushed out of his body, causing him to jump at the sudden appearance of two villains — all Heliobi were, after all.

One of them had a grumpy expression, seeming familiar. The other was wobbly, as if it had taken the beating of a lifetime. ’Sunny’ resolutely raised his hands, determined to extinguish the flame of undeserved life, until suddenly—

[Your Shadow is evolving.]

”Bwuh?!”

He regained a sense of clarity. ’Sunny’... no, Sunny blinked his eyes a few times, sensing a great incongruity between his present and past selves. It was like all of his intrusive thoughts flowed out like a broken dam, flooding his entire being with nothing but nonsense and tomfoolery.

’Oh... shit.’

He got possessed by a Heliobus — the weak and flickering one besides Tail, if he had any reasonable guesses. For some reason, the thing that protected him from Phantylia failed to protect him from a mere Awakened Monster. Had that only been a one-time thing, or did certain conditions need to be met?

With each passing moment, Sunny’s expression contorted further and further into horror. He remembered everything he did, both big and small...

Sexual assault — which was actually kind of fun until he started getting his ass beat — jumpscaring Huohuo — quite amusing, all things considered — abusing Nightmare — inexcusable, because who would dare treat his cute little pony like that?! — becoming the Syrup Lord, which he still smelt like — nothing too crazy, because who wouldn’t want to drench themselves in syrup? — running into Kafka, who proceeded to trick him into larping as Spiderman in order get him out of a public space — which was also very fun, though, he had no idea how he managed to perfectly replicate Kafka’s webs, down to having them shoot out of his wrists. There wasn’t any holes in them to shoot from...

...Now that he thought about it, he had a pretty good time. He probably needed to apologize to Nightmare by sacrificing the nightmares of hundreds of poor souls, though.

The worst part about this entire situation, besides the fact that a FUCKING Heliobus had the gall to enter his body, was that he could clearly sense three human shadows in the bushes.

Inhaling deeply, Sunny’s face scrunched up as he turned to said bushes.

There, Huohuo was staring in fright, next to Sushang who had a somewhat awkward expression on her face.

And there was Guinaifen, who was holding her phone stick with a shit-eating grin, pointing her finger at it as if mocking Sunny.

She definitely recorded him in all his glory.

’Glory! Glory! Glory— fuck you, Solvane!’

Tail glowered at Huohuo.

”Hey, runt! Capture this weakling before they end up getting away!”

The Heliobus’ words seemed to snap the girl out of her stupor. She hurriedly nodded, white sparks crackling around her hand as she summoned a Memory in the shape of a gourd.

”R—Right!”

Cocking her arm back, Huohuo threw the gourd with all her Ascended might, accurately hitting the Heliobus — which was somehow solid. As gourd bounced off, its lid magically removed itself, before unleashing a suction force. The trembling Heliobus yelped as it was sucked into the gourd.

”No, no, no, I can’t go back to that dark furnac—!”

Once the Heliobus was completely devoured by the gourd, the lid popped itself back on as if nothing ever happened.

Sunny gulped.

”Pokémon... wait, what the hell is a Pokémon!”

***

”And there you have it chat! Our second successful ghost hunt! Who would have thought the ghost would be so small, tiny, limp, pathetic, useless, and downright humiliating? This ghostbusting thing is a cakewalk... er, see you next time? Make sure to like and subscribe, comment, donate, follow me on this and that, worshi—”

”And I bit and bit and bit and bit and chewed and swallowed and the taste was absolutely scrumptious but being the absolute Demon that I am, I spat it out before that pleb could even consider infecting me with his wretched disease. Impressive, right? Now you owe me twice over!”

”No, that shit is LAME, because I could eat stuff and spit them out, too, but you don’t see me bragging about it. And no, I don’t owe you nothing, you rodent! Be grateful I haven’t exterminated you for entering my gorgeous body— that came out wrong. Unless...”

”Man, that was some scary stuff, right Huo squared? I mean, imagine he suddenly tried to kill us. I guess that’s the power of teamwork, eh? Eh?”

Huohuo’s eye twitched.

”That’s not my name. If he tried, I’d just kill myself first. What did you even do?”

Sushang averted her gaze.

”Morale...?”