"I want to watch."
When she heard it could protect other people, Little Patricia pretended not to see Gilderoy shaking his head behind Penelope. She pressed her rosy lips together and nodded firmly.
Rose's huge segmented limbs clicked and clacked. As it approached, Dolphin's face went pale. In despair, he started cursing at the top of his lungs, even dragging out You-Know-Who's name to threaten them.
Lockhart only glanced at himself before he was frightened into lowering his head.
Wolf Mom stared at Penelope, who was looking at the little girl with a careless gaze, and touched her chin thoughtfully.
Patricia was afraid of the giant bug in front of her, but instead she moved a few steps closer. In the eyes of the captured Muggles, Dolphin was an existence even more evil than You-Know-Who. After all, among the Dark Wizards who took pleasure in torturing Muggles, he had been the most enthusiastic of all. That torment and pain were enough to sear themselves into anyone's bones, while You-Know-Who himself, after obtaining demonic knowledge, had appeared in front of Muggles even less often.
Rose lifted Dolphin's leg and bit down. Though unlike ordinary spiders, as demons they actually had upper jaws and could swallow solid food, since there was time now, it still secreted venom from the poison glands in its chelicerae and injected it into Dolphin's leg. Obeying its master's request, it injected only a little instead of killing its prey outright.
Then digestive enzymes secreted from its midgut poured into the tissue torn apart by its chelicerae. Part of Dolphin's leg turned limp under his own and everyone else's eyes, the inside beginning to break down into fluid before Rose sucked it into its digestive tract.
The horror and directness of the scene before her eyes was completely