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Another two vines are sliced through, releasing Arel's neck and right arm from the grip of the plant. Now only the vines holding her legs and waist remain.

The salaryman is set ablaze, and immediately withdraws his grip, screaming in horror as the fires begin to consume his flesh, catching quickly on the various plants that are dotted around his body. Then the lance is shoved through his torso, a spurt of blood and entrails heralding its arrival through his gut.

He collapses in a heap, not yet slain, but even now his death rattle is sounding over the crackling of the flames on his skin.