Right upon awakening in a new time loop, Shina didn't hesitate to get on her feet and go straight to Kagutsuchi. She would be true to her vow to herself and head right on up to the Kagutsuchi HQ to wait for Alex to show up so they could come up with a plan to take care of Nu. Landing in Orient Town, she broke into a sprint past the many people, apologizing to everyone left frazzled by her presence, and wouldn't stop until she was at the very top of this grand city.

Well, that's what she wanted to do, but for all that enthusiasm she was still confined by her mortal limits, which included her lung capacity. So she had to break pretty often, meaning it took her an hour or so to make it to the top. By the time she was there, her shirt was drenched in a sweat made cold from the high elevation, and she cuddled her arms against her chest and shivered while climbing up the last staircase.

"Brrrrr…!" Her lips vibrated together enough to tickle the skin, making her quiver just a little bit. She made it to the top and perked her head to look at the door. It was sealed shut, meaning no one had made it here yet. Not Noel, not Ragna, and especially not Alex.

"Heh, well, 'tis to be expected…" She remarked in a peppy, fanciful tone before pulling her arms away and turning around. Overlooking the grand city, she reflected upon her time spent there until now. This loop, the likes of Litchi, Bang, Tao and Carl would have to deal with their affairs on their own, and though her heart felt heavy about not being able to help them directly she knew now that this decision was for the best.

"Stay safe everyone. Alex and I'll have this time loop hullabaloo solved soon enough!" She said with a hand laid atop the center of her chest, feeling the weight of this world added upon her shoulders. But the memories of her family, the happiness she wanted to protect more than anything else, helped her carry that weight to the point that it felt lighter than her own body.

Closing her eyes and letting out a quiet, solemn hum, she then walked towards the top of the staircase's stone railing and leaned her back against it. Tucking her hands into her pockets and wiggling her kicked up right foot in small circles, she looked towards the sunny sky and commented "Nothin' I can do but wait. Hope you make it here soon Alex…"

Time seemed to pass at a brisk pace, as before Shina knew it the sun was already descending past the top of the building, meaning that a couple hours had passed. Puckering her lower lip upward and giving it a smack, she glanced to the left and found no trace of Alex.

"Wonder what's takin' him so long? I don't want to move but if he's run into trouble…" She bounced her rear against the rugged stone to push herself upright, feeling a little stiff in the legs and shoulders from how long she'd been standing around. As she took another glance down the stairs, a slow panting sound could be heard coming closer, and there was something familiar in how cutesy it sounded.

"Huh? Is that?" Shina fluttered her eyelashes and looked down to see Noel Vermillion running up the staircase. With her heart hardening like solid concrete, Shina glanced at her feet and with a somewhat disheartened sigh murmured "Guess I can't avoid them all…"

Noel stopped a few steps from the top, raising her little head and keeping her mouth agape as she let out a timid, puzzled "H…huh?" Shina pulled a hand from her pockets and waved it beside her head with a smile, declaring out with a old western dialect "Howdy stranger! What brings you around these parts?"

"Who are…you?" Noel paused in the middle of her question, as though for a moment struck with familiarity. She lowered her head until the chin nuzzled the collar of her coat, and with a flustered blush she could be heard murmuring "I don't know this person…do I?"

Noel closed her eyes and gave a timid moan. Before the girl could piece anything concrete together, Shina pretended to look shocked and laid a hand on the side of her face, gasping out "Oh, I recognize those clothes! You must be the NOL personnel I was told to liaison with! Noel Vermillion, right?"

The girl stopped thinking and perked her head up, remarking in a surprised tone "You're from this branch?" Shina nodded her head, and Noel continued with her right brow raised "I didn't hear anything about a second liaison in my report…"

"So she's already met with Terumi. Good thing he's not around this time…"

Shina breathed a light sigh and then explained to Noel "Sorry, I was assigned to this job in secret. Me and my uhhhh partner! Yeah, my partner! We were to meet up with you and help with finding Major Jin Kisaragi, but my friend's gotten a leeeeettle lost." She creaked out a grin while pinching her thumb and pointer before her chin.

Noel looked up and shook her head, but judging from the way her eyes squinted she couldn't shake off the feeling that something was familiar. Even so, she began climbing the rest of the stairs while telling Shina "F-Forgive me for being pushy, but I can't wait. Major Kisaragi could be inside and-"

Guided by the memories of what happened from her last encounter with this timid lass, Shina grabbed Noel's right wrist from between the folds of her coat and declared "No!" Noel spun and squealed, finding her eyes looking straight at Shina's frozen, freaked out gaze. Shina squeezed her eyes shut and with a tense scowl turned her head aside.

"Wait! Stop Shina…You're letting your emotions get the better of you. But…" Watching Noel get torn in half and later crushed to a fleshy paste was just too hard to forget.

"P-Please…why are you acting like this…? I-It hurts…"

Noel winced and turned her head left and right, trying to pry herself free from Shina's tight grip. Shina looked down and noticed what she was doing, then loosened up enough to see that her grip has left a red imprint on Noel's skin. Staring at that mark for a moment, Shina closed her eyes and apologized "I-I'm sorry…"

Putting the hand up to scratch the side of her face, Shina said "I've just…seen a friend die before because they weren't careful enough." Noel paused in the middle of rubbing her wrist and looked her in the eye, giving her a quiet, empathetic reply "I'm sorry to hear that…B-But I'll be ok. I've been trained for this sort of thing."

Shina looked at Noel, seeing just a hint of confidence in those eyes of hers. It wasn't much, but it was a reminder to Shina that Noel wasn't so weak that she couldn't fend for herself. Even so, she had to request of the Lieutenant "Alright, but let me go first to investigate. If the coast is clear I'll call for you, ok?"

Noel gave a short, trusting nod and said "O-Ok…And if your friend shows up, I'll tell them you went in." Shina smiled and gave a thumbs-up in turn.

"Thank you. Now, if you excuse me!" Returning to a peppy demeanor knowing Noel would stand back safe and sound, Shina turned upon the door and walked up to it. As she went to lay a hand on the door, she remembered the Ars Magus trap on it. However, she didn't retract in time and pressed the door forward, surprised to find it creaking open a moment later.

"E-Eh?" As the door opened enough for her to be able to slip in, she drew her rapier and snuck inside. Glancing around, she tip-toed towards the foyer while thinking it odd the trap didn't activate.

"Does that mean someone's gotten here before us? Oh wait, yeah, Jin…"

Once at the foyer she looked around for any signs of the Major, whispering while keeping her rapier close to the chest "It'd probably be a good idea to knock him out so he's not in the way." A chill hit her spine and then fell upon the back of her arms and legs. With a sharp turn around Shina pointed her rapier at an icy fog building up in the distance.

"Jin Kisaragi! I know you're in there!" She remarked upon seeing a familiar shadow amongst the fog. The man in question walked out at a sluggish pace, like a glacier advancing atop the ocean's surface. As his visage became clear, he looked different from the last time Shina had seen him. He had gained that strange violet aura and red eyes common of those that mysterious being possessed with their power, but not just that his overall demeanor was serious and downright unnerving to behold.

He looked a lot like a robot accomplishing a given task, and not a single emotion crossed his face as he held Yukianesa before his face and drew it out. Ice spread along the walls and ceiling around him, creeping and crackling with every atom of moisture that froze over. Shina started seeing her own breath, and it was thicker than the frost clouding up off the ice Jin produced. As the Major wrenched his sword free from it's sheath, he pointed it downward and without hesitation declared one thing.

"Freeze all who stand in my path…YUKIANESA!" Then he stabbed the ground, and Shina reeled back with a surprised gasp.

Chapter 25: Desperation

When the time loop started over again for Alex, he didn't waste even a second. He got to Kagutsuchi and started running wherever his feet could take him. His heart was racing, his mind unable to think of anything else but Shina's own safety. Without any regard for conspicuousness, he yelled her name as loud as he could.

"SHINA! SHIIIINAAA!"

He got no responses save for the bewilderment of the people around him, which he ignored every time and ran straight for the next open area to yell at. He panted with a wild fervor, using his powers to draw in enough air for him to not succumb to exhaustion.

"I have to find her! I can't let Terumi be the first to reach her!"

His pupils were shrunken, his face paler than the whites of his eyes, and all the blood in his body flowed to his legs to keep them running. Even though Kagutsuchi was huge, he would cover it a dozen times over if that's what it took to find her. All the while, he couldn't escape the image of Terumi's maniacal cackling echoing in his mind.

"SHIIIIIIIIINAAAAAAA!"

And a dozen times did Alex run through Kagutsuchi. His legs were stiffer than stiff, his lungs were so worn down they were like deflated balloons, and the bottoms of his feet were torn open and bleeding. Through this pain, the boy was hesitant to drag himself to the top of Kagutsuchi, the last place he deigned to look.

Laying a hand on the side of his forehead, he could feel the veins between his skin and skull throbbing like a jackhammer. His teeth were deep-rooted into a scowl as he passed the wall at the top of the stairs and looked to the right to see Kagutsuchi HQ.

"This is the only place I haven't checked…It HAS to be where Shina's at. I just have to hope it's by her own volition and not because of Terumi…"

Clenching his hands into fists he charged for the last staircase standing between him and the HQ. Along the way, who else would he bump shoulders with but Ragna the Bloodedge, who growled and right away grabbed Alex by his left shoulder to jerk him back.

"Hey asshole, where do you think you're going?!" Ragna would regret choosing now to be his foul-mouthed self, as when Alex spun around he gave the man his most furious, impatient glare, his eyes looking as hollow as a horror film phantom.

"I don't have time for this shit so I'd suggest you let go. NOW." Alex spoke in a deep, rapid voice, and for a moment Ragna's grip loosened as his arms could be seen trembling. Alex then continued up, with Ragna grumbling "Wait a second…I swear I've seen that kid somewhere before."

At the top of the stairs, Alex saw the door was shut and growled. He swung his right fist up, with Ragna catching up with him a moment later and commenting while sagging his brows to show he cared little "Hey kid, you're not going to get in-" The boy set his fist on fire and punched the door so hard it was blown down, giving the Grim Reaper a complete 180 on his opinion.

"What the actual HELL?!" He stared straight ahead with eyes blank as newly made paper, but that expression turned to a teeth biting grimace as him and Alex were assailed by a frosted gale. Alex widened his eyes and stared into a frosty wasteland, as everything he had seen inside before was buried in a thick layer of ice. It was as though he had swung open the doors of the world's largest freezer.

"If Shina's here, then that must mean she's fighting or fought Jin!" The echoes of a gun chamber unloading confirmed to him the latter, and Alex's brows rose while his nostrils flared open from a heavy breath he took in. Then without a second more of waiting, he charged into the building with Ragna close behind.

"Hold on! I have some questions for-" His advance was slowed by him slipping on the ice and falling on his back.

Making his way to the foyer, Alex heard the gunfire stop as a shrill scream came forth, and that itself was soon drowned by unhinged laughter and a vicious remark.

"You've gotten in my way for the last time, TRASH!"

That voice could not be mistaken as anyone but Jin's, and from how high-pitched it was the scream could only belong to Noel. Shina's presence in this scuffle was undetermined, save for the worrisome fact that Alex could not sense her power. The spread of ice even extended to the giant holy statue in the very center of the building, and possibly down to the Cauldron as well.

"Jin can't do this. Not on this level anyways…"

Alex's suspicion of foul-play in this scenario would prove well and true, as the moment he was able to examine the entire foyer he found Jin standing in the center of the room with the strange aura and hellish red eyes he'd become far too accustomed to seeing. Yukianesa was pointed downward at Noel, who had fallen to her knees and succumbed to the effects of the frost. Her skin was losing color, the ice was creeping up her bare legs, and even with fingers spread to help in embracing herself for warmth Bolverk refused to leave the grip of her palms.

"M-Major…Please…S-S-S-Stop this!" She begged, but her pleas fell on the deafest of ears. Jin's mouth swung agape and his expression oozed with delight and madness as he proclaimed "Is this the best you can do, scum?!"

Noel was frightened, and she clutched her arms as tight as she could while her body curled itself up. Alex swung his head around the room, gritting his teeth while projecting a steady warmth around himself.

"Don't have time for this! Where are you Shina?!"

As he tried to find her, Ragna ran at his side and his glare went straight towards Jin. His cheeks crinkled into a scowl, and the primordial nature of his own humanity came forth in how savage he declared his brother's name.

"JIIIN!"

When he heard his name called with such vicious vitriol, Jin stopped what he was doing and swerved his body around one slow step at a time. Each time his foot set down on the ice, the atmosphere got a degree colder. He looked as his brother with arms held out, Yukianesa suspended down from his grip, and a sheer, fascinated look in his eye.

"Brother?! Is that you brother?! Oh how long I've waited to see you again!"

Ragna swung out his sword before his waist and grumbled under a scowl "Bastard, what the hell have you done?!" Jin smiled and giggled as hard as he could, declaring to him with a scathing glee "That look….that rage…I've missed it SO much. Hehehe, I'm so GLAD you came at just the right time, brooooother!"

Jin swung his body in a single, jerking motion and pointed Yukianesa back at Noel's neck, declaring with all his might "Now you can watch me kill that stupid bitch Saya!" He swung his sword up and prepared to bring it down, Noel clenching her eyes shut and screaming at the top of her lungs "STOOOOOOOOOOP!"

Metal rang out as Ragna got between Jin and Noel, locking blades with his brother and forcing him back, exclaiming in a sheer rage "Are you out of your goddamn mind Jin?!"

Jin smiled, ecstatic at the sparks flying both figurative and literal between the two of them, and he exclaimed with unhinged glee "You're the one palling around with a destroyer of worlds! But wait! That's just the type of person you are nowadays, aren't you brother?!"

"RRRRRGGGHHH!" Ragna swung his sword out and blew Jin back, exclaiming with all his vitriol "Jin, you have no goddamn idea how long I've waited to kick your ass!"

Jin swung his arms out and burst into laughter, telling Ragna as bluntly as he physically could "The feeling is so mutual, BROOOOTHER! But I can't even decide how I'm going to kill you! Will I slice you up into pieces like that piece of trash you're defending?!"

With how much Jin was getting in the way of his search, Alex was about to draw his sword to help Ragna take him down when the Major said "Or perhaps I'll freeze your entire body over…Like that other blonde wench who dared to stand in my way!"

Alex's body stiffened in a hunch, and his hand stayed clenched on open air instead of the handle of his blade. He looked at Jin, muttering his words verbatim with a foreboding tone "Blonde…wench…?"

Frozen in that pose, the boy's eyes started to gaze towards the right, and a sight once obscured by a thick mist started to reveal itself. Time stopped with a thick, thumping heartbeat against Alex's chest. His eyes widened and he could acknowledge nothing else but what was in front of him. Sounds went mute, he couldn't feel anything on his skin, and he wasn't able to tell that his feet were moving on their own. To him, it was as though what he saw drew him in like a magnet. A cruel, unbelievable magnet.

"S-Shina…?"

He dropped to his knees and his arms limped to his thighs, swinging back and forth like bloody pendulums. He let out many short gasps, his eyes fixated on a series of frozen chunks, each one containing the dismantled remains of Shina's body. Her body had been preserved in an offensive stance, as part of her rapier looked to be in mid-thrust. What stuck in Alex's mind more was her face. She was shocked, perhaps a bit frightened, but she couldn't possibly have imagined that this would be her fate.

Alex's eyes trembled and his body started to fall forward. He held his hands against the front of his face and hid his tears and moans of frustration. His brain throbbed, pained by the cacophony of emotions whirling within.

"E-Even though you were suffering, you still kept trying to come here to fight Nu, didn't you? Y-You've stayed strong through all this, a-and yet this is how the world repays you…? W-Why…?! What the HELL did you do to deserve this kind of fate?!"

"Hehehe…You know EXACTLY why this is happening."

A voice rung out in Alex's mind. It sounded like him, but it was not him. That was something he refused to acknowledge.

"Get…OUT!"

"It's because you've been too…soft. None of this would have ever happened if you had just-"

"Shut…UP!"

"…If you had just acknowledged what you really are. Hehehehe, I KNOW the vow you made all those years ago. Because WE made that same vow. To never be treated like a fool, to never be TRAMPLED below someone's FEET like a piece of DIRT, to make anyone who stood in our way PAY with their BLOOD!"

"…I-I deny your very EXISTENCE! Now GET OUT!"

"You'll never be rid of me. For we. Are. ONE. And 'til death do us part, as the saying goes…"

"…I may never be rid of you, but I'll NEVER let you control me."

"Oh tsk tsk now…Why WOULD I do that? YOU are the one who is angry, right? Rage, fear, sadness…It forms your very BEING. Alex Whiter would only be a HUSK were it not for them…"

"…And YOU would not exist either!"

"Heheheh…And now why would you ever wish for THAT…When I am offering you a suggestion?"

"…."

"You KNOW why that aura is on that pitiful HUMAN. You KNOW why THEY chose to kill her. It's to get to you…THEY want YOU to suuuuffer. And they'll use any means necessary in order to do so."

"…"

"Your little sideshow attempt at adhering to your humanity will get you nowhere anymore! If only you were more RUTHLESS, more POWERFUL…! Then what you want could be yours, and you'd never have to be alone again…"

"Never…alone…again…"

"Heeeeh. So…why don't you drop this little façade and embrace our little symbiosis, my little passive persona, and teach that enigmatic FOOL a lesson about crossing OUR path."

"…."

"Before the curtain closes on yet another act, make it clear to the puppeteer that this is OUR show! Hold nothing back, little Whiter…Throw everything you have at their pathetic little doll. Make them ALL pay with their blood…"

Alex began to pull his hands away from his face. There were no traces of tears once a fire began to build around his body. His heart, once thumping, began to race, and now his irises had turned a dark shade of red. He felt light-headed as his face stiffened into a subdued expression of rage and he began to pull his body off the ground. He gave one glance at Shina's shattered body, then as he turned his head to face Jin he let forth a few short body-shaped pulses of energy that were in tune with his heartbeats.

Ragna and Jin's clash stopped in an instant, and the two parted ways with differing reactions to what they just felt. Ragna hunched over, his body sweating all over, while Jin just looked towards Alex and swung his arms out to declare "The destroyer has been awakened! Hahahaha! Now…I CAN KILL YOU TOO!"

Alex stood sideways at first, tilting his head back to glare at Jin with one eye. The boy didn't blink, and his pupils didn't move even a millimeter out of focus as step by step he turned to fully face Jin. The heat around his body turned the ice to mist in a second, none of it touching Shina's broken self.

There was no scowl, no gritted teeth. His lips were a simple line from one cheek to the other. The other features of his face were no different, staying simplistic even as his eyes projected a rage hotter than the fire around his body. The pulses of energy quickened while the heat rose around his body like an updraft, making his hair and shirt wave around.

He disappeared, not even kicking up a gale, and reappeared right above Jin with his right fist alright thrust down. Jin jumped ten feet back with an eager grin as Alex smashed the ground, at first imprinting a hollow hole into the ice before a wave of heat spread out and melted all ice to a fine steam within a twenty foot radius. This freed Noel, but sent her flying back along with Ragna.

The loose parts of Jin's uniform flapped beside his body as he landed, and with a guttural chuckle the left side of his lips cracked up with a grin as he pulled Yukianesa from it's sheath and pushed the steam away with a cold gale. Alex landed on the ground with legs spread and head hung so far over that his back was hunched like a hump. He laid a hand across the front of his face and could be heard making deep breaths as energy kept pulsing out of his body. His back heaved with every breath and he gripped his fingers around his face, parting just a couple of them so he could glare at Jin.

"Drop the act…YOU MONSTER!"

"Act, what act?! The only one putting on an act is you, destroyer!" Jin said while shaking his head hard back and forth. Alex's eye flared wide, the iris consuming the white within whole.

"Don't screw with me! I KNOW you're controlling Jin! How dare…HOW DARE YOU KILL SHINA!"

"Heheheh…! Why should I care about the name of some stupid wench?! She got exactly what she deserved for enabling you, DESTROYER!"

With words like that it became less likely that Jin was in the middle of being controlled by the mysterious being. There would be no reason to hide their presence now. Such a realization didn't make Alex's emotions lessen, in fact the rage boiled even more within. It started to sound like Jin had done this of his own volition, more than likely making the conscious decision to listen to the "Power of Order" that rested inside of him.

Alex knew the Power of Order as a force that recognizes threats to the world, and gives a chosen few the strength to combat these threats. If these suspicions were true, then Jin was not only perceiving Alex as a threat, but had seen Shina as one as well. The being just gave Jin the aura to help his crusade along.

"Why?! What did she EVER do to deserve such treatment?!"

Memories of Shina's kindness and smiles scratched at the front of his mind, trying to break through the rage that clouded his thoughts. Instead those memories burned, serving only to fuel the flames of hatred. The heat surrounding Alex's body burst into flames that rose up and melted all the ice across the building, heated droplets pattering down onto Jin's skin if they didn't already turn to steam.

"All she wants is to save her people. Even through every bump in the road…She's found the strength to keep going! And yet this world…THIS WORLD…!"

Alex pulled his hand away from his face and limped both his arms towards the ground. With a couple dry, crazed laughs, he swung his upper body back and flung his arms out, letting out a pained scream as the entire building began to quake. The flames grew thicker and broke through the ceiling, which was already weak from Yukianesa's ice, and started to crack it apart.

Jin held his ground and let the power wash over him, giggling all the while. Ragna tried to hold his ground and draw his sword to join the fight, but upon seeing Noel struggling to take all this in an instinct kicked in and with teeth grit he sprinted over and put himself in between her and Alex.

As the boy finished screaming, he hung forward with a ring under his eyes. He swung his right arm back, gritting his teeth and leaping straight at Jin. The man swung Yukianesa at the ground and sent a wave of ice at Alex. It melted apart but dispersed some of the flames, so he lashed it at the ground again and dispelled more of them, then sent out one more to cover his body in a creeping frost that slowed his movements just enough for Jin to spin around and stab Yukianesa into the ground.

"Leave this world forever, NIGHTMARE!"

The moment Yukianesa made contact, the precipitation was flash frozen around Alex, trapping him in a massive wall of ice. Jin sheathed his blade and swung his arms out, giggling in glee.

"Hahaha! HEHEHEHE!"

The ice started cracking from the center of Alex's fist, spreading out across the entire thing in a second and shattering it apart, with Alex continuing his lunge until his fist was dug into Jin's chest and his left foot smashed the ground apart. He twisted his knuckles and ripped through the man's shirt, and with how tight he got in he managed to strain the skin enough to draw blood.

"Ghhh, h-how?! Yukianesa's power is suppo-" The back of Jin's head was grabbed onto by Alex's other hand, and the boy turned to the side to slam his face into the broken ground a second later. Then he stamped down on Jin's right hand, crushing the bones with a resounding crack. The boy flared his brows up and then kicked Jin in the hip, shifting his body so hard that his right shoulder snapped in two.

"AAAAAAAAAAAUGHHH!" Jin let out a blood curling scream that left even Ragna with fear in his heart. Alex then plucked Jin by the back and flicked him into an upright pose, snapping his hand out to grab him by the neck. The boy tilted his head to glance at the man's limping arm.

"Hmph, your arm's broken. But what's an arm compared to an entire body, right?" Alex looked Jin straight in the eyes, which were rolling back as he was hacking with blood that was flowing into his esophagus.

"F-Freeze…Y-Yukiane-" He grabbed the blade free from it's sheath and swung it at Alex, but without averting his gaze he raised his right hand and pulled the sword free from the man's grasp. He went straight for the handle, and shattered it like a glass cup. From afar, Ragna's eyes went wide and his face was pale.

"You have to be kidding me…He DESTROYED a Nox Nyctores?!"

Alex raised his brows and puckered his lips a bit, giving a curt shrug as he appeared to be pondering the situation.

"Oh, it seems you've lost your weapon now too…Or, is it more apt to call it your murder tool?!"

Alex dug his fingers into Jin's neck, piercing the skin.

"See, I bet you thought you were being a hero, but you're not. Anyone who would listen to a voice in their head that told them to kill a PERFECTLY INNOCENT GIRL…!" Alex gripped tighter as his face became wrinkled with rage, only to pull himself back a little with a cough before continuing "Well…They aren't a hero. They're a murderer, no two ways about it."

Jin's face was red, as the blood rushing to the wounds in his neck had nowhere to go but there. He gagged and water was forced from his tear ducts, but Alex continued to lecture him "To think that you, YOU! …Would ever become Hakumen. But, that's fine."

He held his right hand out and set it on fire, giving Jin a chance to see it as a reflection off his eyes before the boy raised it beside his head and pointed a finger at the Major's forehead.

"This version of you's never going to get a chance TO become him!" Before the fire was shot, a fragrant whirlwind filled with rose petals surrounded the boy and whisked him away, with Jin being dropped to the ground hacking and panting for air a moment after. Ragna's the only one able to acknowledge what had just happened by whispering "Huh? Wait, that looked like Rachel's magic…"

Next Time: The Monster Within