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.

lapse of judgment to the

witness him making

wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going

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

of those chests, though… that would be a trophy to put all other trophies to

for a couple of seconds, letting his eyes adapt to the bright light of the sun, and then studied the three chests standing in the

three were open. Two stood

eyes widened in

and adamantine, its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull metal. It

laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either the beautiful face of the mysterious

are thousands of

heart skip a bit and swayed

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

this can't

allowed Saint to be injured in a fight against Sailor Dolls, walked through the poisonous darkness of

almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that very few could have

get to where he was currently standing. It wasn't easy at all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck.

shined in the bright radiance,

was so beautiful. His

if

several steps forward,

How am I going to carry all of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be able to enter the

but then stopped suddenly.

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.