Widow

A blend of woman and arachnid defines this creature. Orange colors her skin, and her face is patterned with markings beneath a scatter of red eyes, two of which are grown to the size of a person's. Where limbs should be she has the jointed legs of a spider, an extra set of four sprouts from her belly, and a bulbous silk-producing sac dangles at the end of her spine.

Cruising past in his Masato Sanjoin guise, Nephrite picks up on the large energy reserve held by Higure Akiyama, a home economics instructor caught up in arranging her own wedding. He seeds his monster into a length of silk she chooses, and the enchanted cloth grips her, driving an obsession with sewing the perfect gown for a coming handmade-dress competition. When Akiyama coldly rejects a bouquet from her betrothed, Luna begins to suspect the Dark Kingdom is at work.

The teacher then wrecks the Juban Hall contest, turning the beast's hypnosis on the assembled crowd to bleed off their energy. That surge pushes Akiyama's own reserves to a peak, letting Widow break from the cloth and feed on her host. Ami, Usagi, and Rei power up and enter the fray, only for a thread of web to instantly trap Sailor Moon. Mercury conjures a Bubble Spray haze so that Mars can incinerate the strands with Fire Soul and cut her loose. Lost in the fog, Widow fires one more useless line of silk before Moon Tiara Action finishes her. Everyone left senseless in the hall stirs awake remembering nothing, and the teacher claims first prize and patches things up with the man she goes on to marry.

Silk is her weapon of choice. From her mouth she ejects adhesive strands and works them together as though sewing, once bragging that she can fashion an entire coffin out of them, a jab she aims at Sailor Moon during their duel. Back when she is still buried inside Higure Akiyama, her voice carries a spellbinding quality that snares nearby people, Usagi among them, sending men into helpless love and dropping women into unconsciousness. Fittingly, the showdown she gives the guardians is one of the shortest anyone faces in the series.