Satsuki was laying on her newly set up bed, relaxing her muscles after all the work she had to do. Even though she was much stronger than the usual girls of her age, moving big, heavy boxes around the house and organizing a roomful of stuff into their right places for nearly 4 hours isn't anything easy. She doesn't enjoy just laying or sitting down, doing nothing, but she had to call this an exception. She was exhausted.

She slowly closed her eyes. Two sentences kept on ringing inside her mind.

'Promise me just this one thing, Satsuki. Don't ever disappear like that without a word.'

She placed her hand on her forehead, and gave out a quick sigh. Totally out of her mind due to exhaustion, she promised that she wouldn't. But now, thinking of it again, she wasn't so sure if she was able to keep that promise.

And she really didn't want to be a promise breaker to her brother.

She was regretting saying that, when she heard a sound.

Knock, knock.

"Who is it?"

"It's me," said a naturally seductive, mature, female voice. Satsuki didn't have to open the door to figure out who it was.

"Rachnera. Come in." Satsuki raised her body so that she was now sitting on the bed rather than lying down on it. She had a feeling that she had to prepare for a long talk.

The Arachne opened the door and walked into the room carefully and cautiously. Her eyes were looking around at the room as she entered. She was in a white tank top that came all the way down to her waist. If Satsuki had known her better, she would have noticed that the clothing was much more conservative than her usual ones.

"Is there anything I can do for you, Rachnera?"

The arachne's red eyes fixed on Satsuki. "Not really. I came here to… talk."

Satsuki twitched her eyebrows. She had no idea what she was up to. She wasn't expecting her to come in her room, out of everyone in the house.

"About what?"

Satsuki couldn't hear an answer. Instead, she could feel something white and rope-like wrapping her up, too fast for her to even respond. The substance tied her two wrists together, then tied her arms and her torso together. It all happened swiftly, and the power of those strings, that Satsuki could know guess as spider webs, were too strong for her to resist in any way. Satsuki could do nothing but gasp.

"Rachnera, what are you…"

Before she could finish her sentence, she could feel herself getting lifted. She tried to move, but it was no use. She just couldn't find a way to free her hands or get herself back down to the ground. A second later, and she was facing the Arachne, with their eyes only being a few centimeters apart. Rachnera's eyes were burning red, and were filled with something that seemed like suspicion. Satsuki wasn't too sure what really was in those eyes. Satsuki stared at her boldly. She was doing her best not to tremble. She clenched her fists hardly.

"May I please ask you what you're doing with me, Rachnera?"

The Arachne looked in her eyes with all six eyes, as if she was trying to find something in it. After looking at her for a few seconds, her eyes narrowed.

"That's strange," she murmured. It was evident that the Arachne was finding something unsatisfying.

Satsuki then felt another swarm of thread coil around her knees, gluing her legs together. Satsuki looked back even boldly. She had no idea of what was going on, but her instincts weren't allowing her to openly freak out. She was half forced by her instincts into keeping a straight face.

"Is this your definition of talking, Rachnera?"

The Arachne made a face, then gently cupped the young girl's jaws with her hands. Her eyes were gleaming with some sort of emotion that the young girl couldn't read out. Satsuki could feel the cool, black exoskeleton brushing around her face, and could feel a shiver work up her spine. But it was far from the feeling of sexual pleasure. Even if it wasn't Satsuki, and was rather a normal guy, he would be shuddering in fear and nothing else. Although it was a smooth brush rather than a harsh touch, Rachnera somehow made it more terrifying than the latter.

Somewhere in her mind, a memory started to appear: a painful memory that she didn't want to see or feel ever again. No longer able to face the Arachne with a straight face, and trying to get that memory off her mind, Satsuki closed her eyes and slightly turned her head away. She really didn't want that memory to appear in her head. This time, she couldn't stop herself from slightly trembling. Yes, she was afraid. Very afraid.

"Would… would you please… stop?" Despite her best efforts, her voice was shaking.

The Arachne smirked. Satsuki could soon feel the thread around her loosening up, and in the next second totally snapped. Her body fell to the ground with a thump. It was then that she knew that the situation a bit ago was over, and was able to open her eyes. She looked, no, leered at the Arachne, that was now back on the floor as well.

"What was that for?" Her face was red hot with anger, and she was barely holding back a yell. Why did she have to do that? Does she even understand what she just made her go through? Rachnera slightly smiled at the sight. In fact, she was actually slightly humming.

"Well, I said that I came for a talk, didn't I? I can't have a nice talk with someone that's lying, can I? So I'd figured that I would make your reactions a bit honest before we went on with our talk. I have a lot to ask you, but you seemed to be good at keeping a mask."

Satsuki reached a conclusion that Rachnera had no idea whatsoever about what Satsuki actually went to. The fear that the Arachne intended was only just a part of it. But Satsuki didn't want to explain what it all was. While she was processing this, Rachnera spoke out again.

"Satsuki Kurusu. Who are you?"

Satsuki looked back at the Arachne.

"I don't get what you're asking."

"Then I'll start off with this question, although I'm pretty sure Honey won't be too happy to know that I'm asking this to you. How did you get that cut on your chest?"

The Arachne could see the young girl's eyes go blank after immediately hearing to that question.

One of her painful memories started to play in her head. Her expressions didn't actually show any apparent fear or despair. It was as if every emotion has just slipped out of her. She didn't move even the slightest bit, and very slight sounds of breathing were the only proof of her being alive.

Rachnera was starting to regret what she did. She wasn't expecting something like this. She was starting to get afraid of what she did to this girl; though her methods weren't exactly the softest, she had no intention of hurting her, mentally or physically. But she had a feeling that her actions and words were the trigger to this reaction.

A few moments later, the young girl opened her eyes. Rachnera gasped. Her eyes were red, just like the time she was staring at her at the dinner table. Not the bright red of her own eyes, but more like a murky, dirty red, quite tainted with black.

The girl slightly opened her mouth. Although she barely moved her mouth as she spoke, it was as if she was the oracle of the Greek myths; every syllable was full of pressure.

"You asked for it."

Suddenly, everything blacked-out for the Arachne.

When Rachnera opened her eyes again, she was no longer in Satsuki's room. Instead, she was in a place that seemed to be a cottage. She could see cylindrical, large chunks of wood glued together to form each wall. As she tried to get herself up, she found out that she couldn't. Her body just didn't move as her will. As she looked down at her body, she was horrified. This wasn't her body. It was a body of a human. She wanted to deny reality when she realized that she knew the owner of this body. Yes, she was in the body of Satsuki Kurusu.

She looked around closely to get a grasp of the situation she was in. There wasn't much furniture around her. There was only a giant pot that was giving out boiling sounds. It seemed like it was cooking something inside. Not being able to spot anything else, she looked back at the body that somehow she was in. It was much less scrawnier than the Satsuki Kurusu that she knew. This body at least had a decent amount of fat and muscles around her, although she still looked like she needs a nice meal. And she noticed that she was laid down on the floor.

That was when she could hear sounds. There was a sound of a door opening, and the sounds of people talking. The sound was too distant for her to understand anything, but it was definitely the sound of talking. The sound gradually got louder and louder. She lost count of exactly how many people were involved in the conversation. There were at least 10 people in it, and she could hear both male and female voices.

She then felt the body moving, then sitting up. She could feel the body moving around, trying to figure out what kind of situation she was in. Rachnera realized that she wasn't actually in this body as its soul and intellect. The body was moving on its own, and she was seeing things in its perspective. Noticing the sound, she could feel the body tensing, trying to find out what they were talking about. The sound was now close enough to be audible. Rachnera found herself concentrating on the sound, trying to make out what they were saying.

"-you sure you found a human?" asked a voice. It was a voice of an adult male.

"Yes, I am very sure. I told you, it's totally helpless. It doesn't even have a knife with it!" A voice of a woman, probably in her twenties or thirties, Rachnera thought. She could hear some chuckling and laughing.

"But what's the point in it being helpless? Didn't you say that it was a young girl?" snickered a male voice, different from the one she heard previously. "She won't even be worth a bite! What can we eat out of a small little girl?"

"It's better than nothing," snapped another voice. "If you don't want it, then you can just go back to your miserable home, and give each of us more to eat."

Rachnera was shocked. These people, or whatever they were, were actually planning on literally eating her. Her head started to spin with sudden nausea; it felt gross just to imagine tearing this young girl into pieces and devouring on them. It seemed like the body noticed this as well. She could feel the body get and start running. Just when the body succeeded in opening the door, she gasped in horror. She could feel the body halting in shock, the legs glued to the ground, trembling.

Tall figures were standing in her way, each holding a weapon of some sort, like an axe or a thick stick. If someone took only a quick glance, they would think that they were looking at people from the ancient civilizations. Their forms were irregular, and definitely not human. Or to be exact, not fully human. One of them had the features of a cow, while another one had a long tail, and so on. They were a group of extraspecies, hungry and longing for meat, regardless of the kind.

"Well, look what we have here," said a female voice. "It seems like our dinner is planning on making an escape." She giggled with a high pitched, screeching voice, that was soon joined with laughter of all pitches.

The owner of the high pitched voice stepped out to the front of the group. Rachnera could now slowly get a grasp on how she got into this situation, and she was starting to feel sick because she could finally start to understand what was really going on. She had asked Satsuki how she got that cut.

The owner of the high pitched voice was an Arachne.