You turn around, and you freeze as you stare at the snake creature, like a complete version of the ones that Gorgon's hair forms. The presence of the creature alone however wouldn't cause you to freeze up like this, what does however cause you to freeze in your tracks is what is hanging out of the mouth of the monsters. Two human legs... Sakura's legs. "-kura...?" All you can do is stupidly finish speaking her name as the last of your sister disappears into the mouth of the monster, sliding down the snake's throat. You're about to charge the monster, you can use your martial arts! You can kill it! You can free Sakur-.

You trip on something. Or rather, something trips you. You look down to see the tail of another of the snakes, and then you look up just in time to see a second snake head darting towards you with incredible speed, much too quickly for you to react to at all. Everything goes dark as the head engulfs you. There's a crunching sound, then you feel nothing at all.

Part 23