Rui winced at her words.
Admittedly, he was pushing it.
"Er, well, I did get pretty handily smacked by Jormungandr the last time I spoke to him," Rui continued. "That was a really solid defeat with no ifs and buts. He wasn't even trying to hurt me, and yet he made me feel pretty weak."
"He's the most powerful being in existence at the moment," she turned back to him on their bed, unsatisfied with Rui's answer. "And you were in his domain. And you didn't even go all-out."
"Trust me, that wouldn't have been enough either. That snake could crush me no matter what I did to him."
"You haven't sustained a real defeat since your battle with Ieyasu," she ignored his caveat. "A battle that happened literally more than eighteen years ago."
