As the endless green thorns exploded through the cave, Arad had to fly back, dodging all of them with backflips. What in the nine hells is a demon of this caliber doing here, and why did it keep hiding? This thing was on the same level as Lunara, so if it wanted to, she could cause a worldwide disaster.
"So, this is your true form?" Arad hit a wall and then changed his direction, running right through Ibaraki's endless thorns; unlike before, they couldn't even scratch his skin now that he was paying attention.
While Ibaraki spent most of her time masquerading as a weak, starving, little girl, her true form was a harrowing, serpentine green demon of thorns and vines. She looked like the stem of a rose given demonic life, but in place of a rose at the peak of her long, prickly body, she had a skinless human face with four eyes, no nose, and two mouths, one above the other.
