The next time I could see clearly, it... was already standing in front of the car door.
"Go... go!!! Muto, go!!!"
I slowly raised my head and looked at the humanlike creature before me. I was certain it wasn't human. No
human's lips could take up half their head.
Its lips stretched all the way past its cheeks. Just how big was its mouth?
Click!
I had just started to shift my muzzle when it suddenly raised a hand and pressed down on the barrel. It slowly lowered its head, those scarlet
eyes holding a trace of intelligence. In
that instant, I understood. It was intelligent, and... there wasn't a hint of bloodlust in its eyes.
Which meant... killing a human meant absolutely nothing to it.
"Hsss... haa..."
It slowly opened its mouth, but no words came out, only a meaningless groan. In that instant, I saw
its teeth... like a shark's,
its mouth was full of inverted triangular teeth. And its mouth... really could stretch open as far as the bottoms of its ears!
Too fast... I couldn't fight back at all. I edged backward, but in the next second, a deathly pale, grayish-blue hand
reached in through the window. Those five
long nails abruptly retracted, and it grabbed my right ankle!
"Ugh!!"
With a muffled grunt, I instinctively drew the two Glocks from under my arms!
"Muto!! Go!! Get back and warn them!!"
I shouted outside, no longer able to worry about anything else, and raised my guns, pulling the triggers at the monster before me!
Bang bang bang bang bang bang!
The monster merely watched me calmly. Its high nose bridge and deeply sunken eyes gave it a faintly foreign
look. Its scarlet
eyes watched my hands, then its head snapped to one side, then the other...