Rika raised an eyebrow and sighed. Jeez, what was the elf girl thinking? Sure they had better senses... and she was definitely half snake. It was hard to ignore her body from the thighs down after all. But who even knew what could be in this weird place? What if there was something freaky in the forest that none of them could even try and deal with? "I'm not being contrary just for the sake of it. Going to Marcus-san makes sense, alright? Don't be a total moron."

With that, the purple-haired naga slithered along after the man, heading around the forest and giving the red line a wide breadth. When she started smelling it, that terrible scent of burning flesh... and then they came upon it. While she had, with her father, cleaned fish before and various other things of that nature, there was nothing that could have prepared her for the terrible slight. She clapped one hand over her mouth, feeling ill as she swayed on her tail. Those... those were people, the charred, burnt corpses were people...

Who could have done this? Something so... [i]horrible[/i]. Why?