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.

this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing

him making a fool out of himself,

was no terrifying Nightmare Creature laying in wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going to attack him if he

stepped through the shadows and appeared inside. He was too excited and impatient to waste any more time... not to mention that

though… that would be a trophy to put all other trophies to shame. A find

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

three were open. Two

eyes widened

strips of

and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing

are

heart skip a

all the way to forming a third core, and then some.

this can't be

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

carrying the 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

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

golden coins shined

was so beautiful.

mind if

forward, he approached the

I going to carry all of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I

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

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.