Then the monster saw Rin and was suddenly terrified because despite the modifications and changes in Rin's appearance, it could sense and remember him and the encounter it had with him and Chris that night years ago in Nara.
Its slimy black venom-like body quivered violently, the dark oily surface rippling and contracting in erratic waves as instinctive fear spread through its gelatinous form.
The creature's amorphous mass shrank back slightly, tendrils retracting inward as if trying to make itself smaller, the glossy black substance glistening under the Niigata daylight while faint tremors ran across its entire unstable shape.
