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.

this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing nature of having

witness him making a

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

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

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

for a couple of seconds, letting his eyes adapt to the bright light of

open. Two stood empty,

eyes widened

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

of it and were laying on the floor in

there are thousands of

felt his heart skip a

core, and then some. With

can't be

wasn't, really. He had almost died while fighting the Mirror Beast, allowed Saint to be injured in

veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that very few could have made the series of discoveries and logical conclusions that would lead

for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing had really gone his way… take this whole Mongrel fiasco, for example. Or everything that had

heavy chest stood silently, surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined

This sight was so beautiful. His eyes gleamed with

if I

several steps forward, he

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

stopped suddenly. His

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.