The men and women watching the creature were still under myama's hypnosis, but now it was as if myama was telling sagiri to move first. The beast could have had no trouble holding the hypnosis for the whole night, but sagiri could tell that it had been weakened by being kept in a place with just water and no sand. Poor beast. There was no time to dillydally, however. He needed to get out there. Being caught inside the confinement wing could cause trouble for myama and he did not want her to suffer even more.
The only reason she had suffered was that she had to deliver a message to him, and he did not want her to suffer anymore. After the second door, he slowed down. He could hear the heartbeats of the warriors watching the beasts stabilize as if they had just woken up. To them, it could seem that they just blinked. sagiri pushed the third door open and suddenly stopped. Another presence had joined in. From the heavy footsteps, it could only be one person.
