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 taxing nature of having to endure the pain of

to witness him making a fool

on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing

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

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

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

Two stood empty, but the

eyes widened in

by strips of dull metal. It was large

brim with heavy 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 reverse depicting

are thousands

his heart skip a

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

this can't be

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

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

standing. It wasn't easy at all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing

The golden coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting him to come

sight was so beautiful. His

mind if I

steps forward, he approached

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

coins… but then stopped suddenly. His hand hovered just outside the invitingly

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.