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

was there to witness him making a fool out of himself,

terrifying Nightmare Creature laying in wait on the other side

hull 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 something going

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

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

open. Two

widened in

its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull metal.

and were laying on the floor

there are thousands

skip a bit

was a treasure that would take him all the way to forming a third core, and then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate the gap between himself and Nephis… maybe even overtake

this can't be

instinctively wanted to think that it had 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 Weave,

carrying the legacy of a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would have been

anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing had really gone his way… take this whole Mongrel fiasco, for example.

chest stood silently, surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting

was so beautiful. His

mind if

forward,

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

but then stopped suddenly. His

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.