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.

lapse of judgment to the taxing nature of having to endure the

to witness him making a fool out

Nightmare Creature laying in wait on the other side of the reinforced door. Nothing was going to attack him if he

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

those chests, though… that would

bright light of the sun, and then studied the three

three were open. Two stood

widened

by strips of dull metal. It was large enough to fit an

laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either the beautiful face of the mysterious charmer or the reverse depicting

are thousands of

heart skip a

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

can't

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

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

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 that had happened in the

coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting

sight was so beautiful.

if I

several steps forward, he

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

the coins… but then stopped suddenly. His hand hovered just

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.