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.

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

one was there to witness him

side

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 of

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

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

open. Two stood empty, but the

eyes widened in

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

floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either the beautiful face of the mysterious

there are thousands of

felt his heart skip

then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate the gap between himself

can't

wasn't, really. He had almost died while fighting the Mirror Beast, allowed Saint to be injured in a fight against Sailor Dolls, walked

a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that very few could have made

wasn't easy at all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing had really gone his way… take this whole Mongrel fiasco, for example. Or everything that had happened in the Crimson

coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting him to

sight was so

mind if

several steps forward, he

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

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

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.