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

was there to witness him making a fool out

there was no terrifying Nightmare Creature laying in wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going to

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 terribly

one of those chests, though… that would be a trophy to put all

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

were open. Two stood empty,

eyes widened in

dark wood reinforced by strips of dull metal. It

brim with heavy gold coins. Some spilled out of it and were laying on the floor in a

there are thousands of

his heart skip a

and then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to

this can't

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

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 would

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

shined in the bright radiance,

sight was so beautiful. His

if

several steps forward, he

all of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be able to enter the shadows with all that

stopped suddenly. His hand hovered just outside

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.