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.

decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing nature of having to endure the pain

to witness him making a fool

laying in wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going to attack

treasury, then simply stepped through the shadows

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

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

open. Two stood

widened in

its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull

filled to the brim with heavy gold coins. Some spilled out of it and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing

there are

felt his heart skip a bit

the way to forming a third core, and then some. With this many

can't

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

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

was currently standing. It wasn't easy at all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently, nothing had really

heavy chest stood silently, surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the bright

This sight was so beautiful. His eyes gleamed with

if

forward,

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

for the coins… but then stopped suddenly. His hand

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.