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.

then shook his head and decided to attribute this momentary lapse of judgment to the taxing nature of having to endure the pain

one was there to witness him making a fool out of

wait on the other side

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

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

adapt to the bright light of the sun, and

were open. Two stood

widened

adamantine, its dark wood reinforced by strips of dull metal. It was large enough

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

are thousands

his heart skip a bit

some. With this many miraculous coins, Sunny would be able to annihilate the gap between himself and

this can't be

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 the Blood Weave, he

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 few could

It wasn't easy at all. And anyway, Sunny was due for a bit of good luck. Recently,

golden coins shined in the

so beautiful. His

if I

several steps forward,

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

stopped suddenly. His hand hovered just outside the invitingly opened

Something… wasn't quite right.

Sunny frowned.