Shadow Slave

Sunny approached the heavily reinforced door and tried to sense if something was moving on the other side of it.

There was nothing.

It didn't feel as though something dangerous waited for him inside the treasury. On the contrary, with how fresh the air was and how clean the floorboards were, the treasury looked almost… inviting.

He wasn't entirely convinced, though.

Sunny lingered for a bit, then commanded one of his shadows to separate itself from his body and slide under the door. It was going to remain very close, so he was willing to risk weakening himself for a bit.

'How do I even open this thing?'

A moment later, Sunny grimaced and covered his face with a palm.

'...When did I become this stupid?'

Looking through the eyes of the happy shadow, he saw the armored compartment in its entirety.

It was a large room, with a high ceiling and three heavy chests standing in its center.

The entire back wall of the treasury, though, was missing, letting in a flood of sunlight through the jagged edges of a massive breach.

'Of course it's missing!'

The Chain Worm had to have gotten inside somehow, after all. Sunny doubted that the demon could have fit through the door of the treasury, let alone politely lock it behind itself after leaving.

momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing nature of

him making a fool

the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing

enter through the breach in the back wall of the treasury, then simply stepped through the shadows and appeared inside. He was too excited and impatient to waste any more time... not to mention that the more times he spent

were really hundreds of coins in one of those chests, though… that would

his eyes adapt to the bright light of the sun, and then

three were open. Two stood empty,

widened

and adamantine, its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull metal. It was large enough to fit an adult

on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either the beautiful face of the mysterious charmer or the reverse

there are thousands of

his heart skip a bit and swayed

treasure that would take him all the way to forming a third core, and then some. With this

can't

the Mirror Beast, allowed Saint to be injured in

a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that very few

too easy to get to where he was currently standing. It wasn't easy at all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing had really gone his way…

heavy chest stood silently, surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting him

sight was so

mind if

several steps forward, he approached

back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be

the coins… but then stopped suddenly. His

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.