Parsley's hastily strewn together plan worked like a charm. The next phase was quite simple. With him distracted by Inanna and disoriented by his absent senses, she could rush in, capture Sarada in a capsule, and use Tasure's instant transmission technique to whisk her away to Otherworld. She was fairly confident that Shek'hinah wouldn't allow anything to happen to her daughter-in-law and would do all she could to remove whatever that sludge was. She was also banking on Auroc not so much as being ignorant of Otherworld, but being completely incapable of traveling there himself.
Okay. The window to escape and saving Sarada was wide open. She wasn't going to fail her again.
She reached into her belt and pulled out a capsule, then...
She was gone. Disappeared before her very eyes. Snatched away before Parsley even had a chance to try and save her.
"...no..."
Again.
She let her get taken away
again! Parsley was right there and she was too slow! Just like eleven years ago, when she was too weak to hold onto her and let her get swallowed up by that crowd. And then too weak to push past the weaker officers and get her back before it was too late.
Again...
Her hands trembled as her breathing grew heavy. It was getting harder and harder to keep the lid on her emotions screwed on.
Why did she waste so much time? Why could she... Why did she...
Why?
Why?
Parsley would never forget what she saw when she eventually found Sarada in that monster's apartment. The screams from her sister were permanently seared into her brain. When she heard the details of those three days and the nightmare Sarada endured, it made her hate herself even more because she could have prevented that.
Slow... weak... all this power and for what?! I can't even protect the people I love the most!
Auroc's voice taunted her, rubbing her failure in her face.
It was starting to slip.
With one single harrowing roar, all of her self-hatred, anger, pain, and frustration exploded out like a bursting dam. There was no analysis, no observation, no patience, and forethought. Only hatred and a single, overriding desire to kill Auroc and everyone associated with him.
Like a wild animal, she erupted toward the reeling Auroc, joining Nevanlinna in a merciless assault on the "god".