Chapter 57: The “gift” you received from your master... was me
Kai lifted both hands in front of him as if they could somehow hold back the inevitable.
"Wait, wait, let’s not be so quick to start killing each other! I mean... don’t we want to talk this out first? I wouldn’t come here to fight you... I came here to kill someone. B-Because of him, I lost my name in my family, P-Please?"
He grinned nervously.
Ophis did not grin.
She didn’t even blink.
She was suddenly gone from where she stood.
SSssshhhh~
Kai didn’t even see her move — only felt the faintest whisper of displaced air brush past his cheek. His spine went stiff, breath locked in his throat. Cold fingers rested lightly against the back of his neck.
Her voice was low... Barely a breath.
"Talk is for prey."
Kai yelped and dove forward, rolling across the floor like a panicked child, slapping a burst of water from his palm mid-roll to push himself further away. A clawed hand swiped where he’d just been, leaving a ragged scar on the stone floor.