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.

attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing

was there to witness him making a fool

other side of the reinforced door.

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

one of those chests, though… that would be

eyes adapt to the bright light of the sun, and then studied the

were open. Two stood empty,

widened in

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

gold coins. Some spilled out of it and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either the beautiful face of the mysterious charmer or the

there are

felt his heart skip a bit and

forming a third core, and then some. With this many miraculous coins,

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 ancient wreck… if it wasn't for the Blood

could boast about carrying the legacy of a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would

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

surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting him to come and

This sight was so beautiful. His eyes gleamed with

if

several steps forward, he approached the

back to the Sanctuary? Damnation!

then stopped suddenly. His

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.