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.

sighed, then shook his head and decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing

to witness him making

Nightmare Creature laying in wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going to attack him if

of the ship and finding a way to 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

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

to the bright light of the sun, and then studied the three chests standing in the middle of

three were open. Two stood empty,

widened in

by strips of dull metal. It was large enough to fit an adult

and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing

are thousands of

felt his heart skip a bit and swayed

some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate the gap between himself and Nephis… maybe

this can't

instinctively wanted to think that it had been far too easy… but it wasn't, really. He had almost died while fighting the Mirror Beast, allowed Saint to be injured in

boast about carrying the legacy of a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would

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

The golden coins shined in

sight was so

mind if

several steps forward, he approached

I going to carry all of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be able to enter the shadows with all that burden, too.

but then stopped suddenly. His hand hovered just outside

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.