"You were more powerful than I expected, but that battle was an exercise in futility. You were only delaying the inevitable." Arokleth said triumphantly in that same distorted voice as Ryu was ensnared. The fanged mouth below the demon opened impossibly wide and swallowed him whole. As she sighed in satisfaction, the amorphous mass receeded back into Arokleth's body, and she quickly reverted to her human form, paying Ryu no more attention and leaving him to his fate. "Now, to find that odd guitarist..."