"I'm going to set you free."
"Set me free? Seijirou-kun, I am free. What makes you think I'm not? Look at me. I can touch you. I can feel your heart racing beneath my hands. I'm never been freer in my life." Tamaki loomed over him, her voice a discordant harmony of a dozen wet whispers.
The oily black substance leaking from her eyes dripped onto Seijirou's chest, sizzling against his silver-gold Ki like acid on silk.
"I said, get off him!"
The air in the pit fractured as Rindou appeared behind the monstrosity, her face was pale, but her eyes burned with fury seeing the ghost over her beloved.
She swung her Ki-reinforced shinai in a horizontal arc, the blue energy whistling with lethal intent.
But Tamaki didn't even turn around. With a sickening squelch, a new, multi-jointed limb erupted from her spine, the bone snapping into place with a wet crack.
