In the deadly silence that settled over the underground arena after the Spell had spoken its last sentence, Sunny stared motionlessly at the flakes of ash swirling in the air.
'...An Echo?'
He was now in possession of a new Echo.
A human Echo.
Of course, it was only logical that an Awakened could leave one behind. Sunny had received his first-ever Memory after killing a human, after all, and those were not too different. However, somehow, he had never considered commanding an Echo left behind by a dead man. One that he had killed with his own two hands, no less.
Wasn't it a little bit too ghastly?
He imagined the soulless, empty copy of Kurt staring at him with lifeless eyes, and shivered a little. The thougt made him deeply uncomfortable, even if such a powerful Echo could prove useful.
Sunny frowned, not sure if he was meant to be glad to receive such a morbid reward.
Just as he did, an amused voice resounded from behind him:
"Well, I'll be damned… that was fast."
