In the Marvel Universe, the System Works for Me
But the unexpected happened again.
Just as the passage was sealed, the Greater Demon sent another Demon through.
Tessa knew her husband. He had no hope of defeating this Demon. At death's door, she made another sacrifice: she bound her soul to the Demon and sealed him inside her body.
Tessa was a great Demon Hunter.
She had sacrificed herself twice:
Once, she gave her life to protect the people of this land.
Once, she gave up her soul's rest for her family.
"Young Winchester, I'm sorry. My strength has been fading. I can't even stay lucid all the time. But the Demon keeps growing stronger, and he breaks free of the seal for longer and longer... His weakness is in his heart. His heart..."
"Ah!"
Pain twisted Tessa's face as a thick chain emerged from her chest.
At its other end was a huge Demon.
"A Hellhound?"
The red-and-black canine Demon stood nearly two meters at the shoulder and measured over three meters long. Lean and knotted with muscle, he gave off an acrid, sulfurous stench.
His four crimson eyes fixed hungrily on Geralt, drool streaming from his jaws.
"A human! A human!"
His tail wagged like an electric fan.
For all the years he had spent in the mortal world, delicious humans had been right under his nose. Yet he could only look and smell, never eat. Whenever he seized control, Tessa trapped him in the Rift Between the Mortal World and Hell.
That wretched woman!
Tessa looked at Geralt. Unable to speak, she could only place her hopes in the strength of a Winchester.
Survive, young Winchester.
Clatter!
The chain drew taut and pulled Tessa into the Demon's body.
Facing a Demon larger than a bison and weighing