Dawn had yet to break.
The clear sky was emitting a bluish light. As the starlight pouring over the tent filtered through and fell within, the scene inside became more vivid.
The black-haired, golden-eyed girl collapsing as she vomited blood.
And the blood-red-eyed woman standing behind her.
Even the black hood pulled low over her head could not conceal that intense color. Those pupils would have been impossible to overlook even beneath the radiant sun.
Their hue was far too bewitching.
Paint that inspired life’s most primal temptations and fears was dripping onto the ground.
It was a liquid with a saturation endlessly reminiscent of the woman’s eyes. It simply beaded upon her arm rather than her eyes.
Upon the left hand that had pierced the chest of the victim who once occupied a seat among the Seven Deadly Sins.
It was a shocking sight. Enough to paralyze the power of speech of the person witnessing it.
“Y-You……!”
Stammer, stammer.
Ria’s mind had been bleached white as she forced out the words. She simply could not comprehend the present situation.
Had this not been the person with whom she had been chatting moments ago?
The girl…