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.

of

to witness him making a fool out

on the other side of the reinforced door.

back on top of the hull of the ship and finding a way to 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 be a trophy to put all other trophies to shame.

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

open. Two stood empty,

widened in

and adamantine, its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull metal. It

out of it and were laying on the floor in a tantalizing pile,

there are thousands of

his heart skip a

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

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 a fight against Sailor Dolls, walked through the poisonous darkness of the ancient wreck… if it wasn't for

there could boast about carrying the legacy of a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not to mention that very

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 Crimson

coins shined in

was so beautiful. His eyes gleamed

if I

forward, he

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

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

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.