The girl resembled a flower drenched in blood.
It was not merely because of the thin stream of blood trickling from between her lips. Despite her swollen, split cheek and the unmistakable traces of repeated violence, her glittering eyes were unusually full of life.
An unpleasant existence, yet one whose beauty could not quite be denied.
The demon who had once been my little sister had been ruined in such an aesthetic fashion. Enough to send chills crawling down my spine when I imagined the pain and malice that must have been inflicted behind it all.
It was hardly something worth discussing now. Besides, I had another reason for deliberately coming to see ‘Greed.’
“Why did you come to Heavenly Sword Mountain (天劍山)?”
She was not someone persuasion or negotiation would work on anyway. That was why I went straight to the point.
It was immediately afterward that the atmosphere around the girl, who had been squealing noisily until then, changed completely.
Her excited expression settled, and in an instant, a seductive smile like a crescent moon appeared at the corners of her lips. It was a look that made her true intentions impossible to guess.
“Hm? What are you talking about? Obviously, I came to see my wonderful Oppa~”
Her voice overflowed with affection.
As she coyly drew out the ends of her words and…