Shin Megami Tensei RPG: Digitized Terror.

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The weakened shadows began falling back as the group fought them, the monsters apparently not being stronger than any creature smaller than them would.

Kaido smashed his fist on the top side of a shadow, just above its eyes where he figured their brain would be. If science was accurate, no living being would be able to properly function without a working brain, and he intended to be thorough with that theory.

"It works! Haaaaaai-yah!" Yui said with renewed courage as she whipped around her madeshift blade-tipped lace-baton, tearing through one of the monsters with relative ease thanks to her agility with such a tool.

One by one, thanks to everyone's cumulative efforts, the group of monsters started falling apart. Each time a shadow perished, its body fragmented and vaporized, becoming a gaseous cloud of black that promptly dissipated, yet, the red eyes became trained on the still darkened floor, and they would, pair by pair, gather at the center of the group, accumulating into a growing crimson symbol that depicted the black figure of a traveler with a stick over their shoulder, at its tip hanging a madeshift bag as said traveler is being followed by an animal. The shape became particularly difficult to tell, but after a dozen monsters had been felled, it had become distinctive and bright enough to allow everyone to see they were stepping into the radius of the circle.