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.

momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing

one was there to witness him

the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going

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...

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

to the bright light of the sun, and then studied

Two stood empty, but

eyes widened in

chest was long and adamantine, its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull metal. It was large enough to fit

Some spilled out of it and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either

there are

heart skip a

third core, and then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate the gap between

can't

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

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

no, it wasn't too easy 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

by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting

gulped. This sight was so

if

several steps forward, he

of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be

stopped suddenly.

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.