"Patter, patter, patter..."
Amid the increasingly heavy, dense rain, beneath the curtain of even more violently pouring rain, the little white snake slowly opened its mouth. A trace of fatigue and weakness flashed through the vertical snake pupils set in its black Iwa, and it slowly pulled its fangs from the pale skin.
"Drip!"
A drop of transparent liquid, trailing a faint thread of blood, fell from the ivory-glossed tip of its fang. It struck the ground, where rainwater and blood mixed, scattering apart before merging into the flowing crimson water gathered at the center of the flower's core. The falling raindrops disturbed it with soft splashes, sending ring after ring of ripples against the corpses carpeting the entire flower core.
"Hiss... hisss..."
Slowly closing its mouth, the little white snake flicked its tongue, its vertical pupils fixed tightly upon the two tiny fang marks in the pale skin, and the droplet-like substance seeping out of them—something far paler than the skin itself.
"Hiss..."
As it watched the pale droplet-like substance slowly fill the two fang marks and gradually solidify into a white, gelatinous substance, the little white snake flicked its tongue again. Its little white lips seemed to curl upward, and an expression resembling a smile appeared on its snake face. Even its little white tail swished a few times in the water, making a soft "splash."
Just then, the gelatinous white substance gave a crisp crack. With a "crack," it hardened from a gel into a pale, solid material.
"Crack... crackle..."
Then, before the little white snake could react to this change, the pale solid substance abruptly spread across the pale skin. A hard pale color, distinct from the youth's pale flesh, suddenly spread from his left shoulder. Before long, it had covered his entire left chest.
"Hiss!"