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 nature of having to endure

there to witness him making a fool

on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going to attack him

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,

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

light of the sun, and then

open. Two

widened in

by strips of dull

of it and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either the beautiful face of

are thousands of

skip a

then some. With this many

this can't be

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, he

anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that

all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good

chest stood silently, surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined

sight was so beautiful.

if

steps forward, he approached

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

suddenly. His hand hovered

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.