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.

head and decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing nature of having to

witness him making a fool out of

terrifying Nightmare Creature laying in wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was

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

there were really hundreds of coins in one of those chests, though… that would be a trophy to put all other trophies to shame. A find of

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

three were open. Two stood empty,

widened in

strips of dull metal. It was large enough to fit an adult

to the 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 the ancient

there are

skip a bit and swayed

forming a third core, and then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate the gap between himself and Nephis…

can't be

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

legacy of a daemon in their 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

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

The golden coins shined in

This sight was so

if I

several steps forward, he approached

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

then stopped suddenly. His

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.