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.

and decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to

one was there to witness him making a fool

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

stepped through 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

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

for a couple of seconds, letting his eyes adapt to the bright light of the sun, and then studied the three chests standing

Two stood empty,

widened in

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

and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile, showing either the beautiful face of the mysterious charmer

there are thousands of

heart skip a bit

front of him was a treasure that would take him all the way to forming a third core, and then some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate

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

boast about carrying the legacy of a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal.

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 that had happened in the

chest stood silently, surrounded by sunlight. The golden coins shined in the bright radiance, inviting him to come and take

gulped. This sight was so beautiful.

if

steps forward,

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

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

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.