When I looked up, she was still watching me.
She was smiling.
A wide, deliciously uncomfortable smile, twisted at its edges as if the act itself were painful. But her eyes… her eyes knew no suffering. They glowed with such unnatural, merciless intensity, like the gaze of an animal toying with its prey before breaking its bones.
"Ah…" she murmured, strutting in front of me with the unholy grace of a dancer, gliding through the purple mist that coated the domain's floor. "You're amusing me more than I expected… I didn't think you'd last even a blow."
Her voice, laced with excitement, reverberated through the air like poison. Every word held a dangerous undertone that dug into my mind, probing my thoughts, trying to engender fear and… pleasure, but they were blocked by my features.
Even so, the hunger in his gaze, the predatory, impatient, almost sadistic lust he emanated, unsettled me.
But... I didn't back down.
