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.

then shook his head and decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing

witness him making a fool out

on the other side of the reinforced door.

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

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

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

open. Two stood

widened

strips of dull

on the floor in a tantalizing

there are thousands of

felt his heart skip

would take him all the way to forming a third core, and then some. With this many miraculous

this can't

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 would have

trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that very few could have made the series of discoveries and logical

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 his way… take this whole Mongrel fiasco, for example. Or everything

The golden coins shined

gulped. This sight was so beautiful. His

mind if

several steps forward, he approached

I going to carry all of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be able

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

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.