The way she phrased her sentence struck me as… off. It was only then that I noticed the obvious. I had been staring straight at her face this whole time and yet… nothing was happening.
'Wait… could it be? Is her irritation connected to this? Her so-called "facial ability" does it… not work on me?'
Before I could test that thought further, her grip around my throat tightened, cutting off my breath. The next moment, she hurled me like a ragdoll, this time into the opposite wall of the chamber. The impact rattled through my bones.
Cough! Cough!
I bent over, coughing twice into the water, my chest burning, before forcing myself upright again. Every joint ached, but there was nowhere to run—no door, no escape. The only option left was the one I least wanted: fight her head-on.
'Haahhh… so this is it. I really can't rely on anything else now. Guess it's time to gamble everything on this damned "nothing" element. C'mon, do your thing… show me some kind of miracle, nothingness.'