"Miss Isaribi, why did you do this?" Hirota Tulio looked at Isaribi and asked hoarsely.
Shame, self-reproach, and guilt mingled on Isaribi's face. Then she said coldly to Kabuto Yakushi:
"Outsider, I've done what you told me to. Where is the spell you promised would turn me human?"
"Of course. I wouldn't go back on my word."
Kabuto Yakushi drew an ancient-looking scroll from his sleeve and tossed it over from a distance, an unusual gleam in his eyes.
"The path to salvation lies within."
Isaribi caught the scroll clumsily. Her hands trembled, and hope and anxious uncertainty crossed her face as she hurriedly opened it.
One glance filled Isaribi's expression with shock, and her face turned extremely grim.
Disbelieving, she read on, her eyes moving up and down several times until the last shred of hope in her heart was extinguished.
"This... this isn't what we agreed on!"
Isaribi confronted Kabuto Yakushi, unable to suppress the fury in her voice.
Kabuto Yakushi merely ignored it, pushed up the round glasses on his nose, and smiled.
"Miss Isaribi, how can you turn around and blame me? Doesn't this Living Corpse Reincarnation let you become human?"
"I wanted to rid myself of the monster blood inside me and become human, not steal someone else's body through this evil practice!"
"Miss Isaribi, you should have said so sooner. You have only yourself to blame for not making that clear. I've fulfilled my promise."
Kabuto Yakushi spread his hands. His smile remained gentle, but a trace of mockery could be heard in his voice.
"Damn you! How dare you trick me!"
Isaribi's eyes nearly spat fire. Fish scales covered her whole body again, turning her into a strange half-human, half-fish creature as she lunged at Kabuto Yakushi.
"And that half-monster of yours!"
"Half-monster?