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.

decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to

there to witness him making a fool out of

the other side of the reinforced

then simply stepped through the shadows and appeared inside.

would be

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

Two stood empty, but

widened in

wood reinforced by strips of

laying on the floor in a

there are thousands of

his heart skip

to forming a third core, and then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to

this can't

been far too easy… but it wasn't, 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 the

For almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that very few could have made the series of

it wasn't 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… take this whole Mongrel fiasco, for example. Or everything that

by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the

This sight was so beautiful.

if

steps forward, he approached

of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I

then stopped suddenly. His hand

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.