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 judgment to the

was there to witness him making a

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

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 the more times he spent here, the more chances there were of something going terribly

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

of the sun, and then studied the three chests

Two stood empty,

eyes widened in

its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull

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

there are thousands of

heart skip a bit and

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

can't

be injured in a fight against Sailor Dolls, walked through

of a daemon in their veins? For almost anyone else, this trip would have been fatal. Not 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 Mongrel fiasco, for example. Or everything that had happened

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

so beautiful. His eyes gleamed

if

steps forward, he

How am I going to carry all of this back to the Sanctuary? Damnation! I won't be

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

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.