You spent entirely too long focusing on what you can see. [His voice has the echo of the growl under it as he smiles at her with teeth too sharp to really belong to a human. In a way it feels entirely too good to just let go. He doesn't have to care so much around her.

He can be as terrible as he wants to be. She's not his friend after all!

The beast in the shadows laughs, and it sounds entirely too like Komaeda as a massive black scaled tail sweeps around him, the heavier massive chain spilling into the light.]

But I'm hardly surprised. Since you tend to forget I'm not skin deep alllll the time. [He raises his left hand but it isn't hers. Scales matching the beast's cover the hand and sharp claws catch in the light. Not entirely Servant at all.]

I could show you what lives in the dark of course! It might even be a little fun to tear you apart in this space. [Another inhuman flash of his teeth and when he fixes his eyes on her they're slitted and wild. His voice crashes about them like thunder. It's like he's becoming something else. Dark and terrible with a hatred for her that could be considered as endless as her despair.]

But you'd have far more entertainment than I feel like giving you today. The stage is being set for the next turn of the story and we're standing on opposite sides again. Not that you'd expect anything else at this point! Like I said, I do think we'll be closing the prologue with Piphron's appearance.

As for what lies beyond that...

[He quiets and walks towards her, his eyes burning with white fire. It's like being in the jaws of a monster now. The pressure mounting by the moment and when he's looming above her his face is in shadow, the chain at his throat is cracking as scales form on his neck. His voice has changed, a low deep sound, and only half human.]

Areta.

And the grand adventure through a poisoned world that may or may not be saved. Hard to say, don't you think so.