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.

his head and decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing nature of having to

witness him making

no terrifying Nightmare Creature laying in wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing

of the hull 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 impatient to waste any more time... not to mention that the more times he spent here, the more chances there were of something going terribly

of coins in one of those chests, though… that would be a trophy to

seconds, letting his eyes adapt to the bright light of the sun, and

three were open. Two

eyes widened in

wood reinforced by strips of

out of it and were laying on the floor

there are thousands of

skip a bit and

would take him all the way to forming a third core, and then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate the gap between himself

this can't be

really. He had almost died while fighting the Mirror Beast, allowed Saint to be injured in a fight against Sailor Dolls, walked through the poisonous darkness of

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

he was currently standing. It wasn't easy at all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing

surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the

gulped. This sight was so beautiful. His eyes gleamed with

if

forward, he approached

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

the coins… but then stopped suddenly. His hand hovered just outside the invitingly opened

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.