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

to witness him

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

the ship and finding a way to enter through the breach in the back wall of the treasury, then simply stepped through the shadows

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

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

open. Two stood empty, but

eyes widened in

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

Some spilled out of it and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile,

are thousands

felt his heart skip

forming a third core, and then some.

this can't

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

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

And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing had

sunlight. The golden coins shined in the

This sight was so beautiful. His eyes gleamed with

if I

steps forward,

to carry all of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be able to enter the shadows with

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

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.