As Little Mia pounced, the silver-white little snake suddenly grew larger. In the end, cat and snake became entangled, until the snake locked the cat firmly in place in a rather complicated manner:
"This feeling of my body stretching and lengthening is very strange."
Shade said this in snake form, then released the cat as Siris covered her mouth and laughed. Sensing that Shade did not want to be close to her, the cat dejectedly jumped back onto the chair and then onto the table, drooping her little head over the table's edge as she watched the snake.
"Strange? It's quite nice. It doesn't look frightening at all. It's beautiful."
Siris continued with a smile, but Shade still did not particularly like this form:
"Other than strengthening the Snake Venom Spell I just acquired, the snake form does not give me any other improvements. As far as I can tell, it has no use for the time being."
So he changed back, then used the White Mouse bound by the Moonlight Ring for a "Memory Dissolution" experiment.
Lady White was able to grant the power to dissolve memories because the waterways of Fatumonst Island could dissolve everything, allowing matter, spirits, memories, and even destiny to become part of the Recurrence Cycle.
Through the experiment, Siris also confirmed that Shade's "snake venom" was not a toxin that existed in material form:
"This is a spiritual toxin, and compared to erasure, its effect on memories is more like dissolution. That means that as long as someone is contaminated by your toxin, even if it cannot completely erase their memories, it will leave those memories fragmented and battered."
Through the experiment, Siris informed him that the toxin took effect almost instantly. As for how much memory it could dissolve, that depended on how