A heavy sigh escaped the young man with white hair and piercing purple eyes as he gazed down at the bloodied girl before him. She was a bloody mess—her tattered pink hair clung to her face, and her once-bright golden eyes now shimmered faintly, dull and laced with pain
"You shouldn't have pushed me to my limit," he said.
"Arck!"
The girl's body convulsed as she coughed violently, blood streaming from her mouth in thick, dark trails that pooled on the ground beside her. Her eyes, which had been half-closed in what looked like defeat, suddenly snapped wide open. That strange light in them grew brighter, almost unnaturally so.
"Arch... Ugh..." she tried to speak, the words coming out broken and strained. But then, something shifted in her expression. A twisted smile began to spread across her bloodied face, growing wider by the second. "Heh... hehe... heheheheh!"
