Alex looked at Sofia with his calm expression, as if nothing had happened between them. His posture was relaxed, his hands clasped loosely behind his back, his breathing steady. To anyone watching, he appeared completely unruffled by the fact that he had just forcibly touched a Star Level predator in a way that no sane person would ever attempt.
"Man, that was close. I thought I was a goner for a moment," Alex said, heaving a sigh of relief that sounded almost genuine.
Sofia's cold voice lingered in the air like frost on a winter morning, each word precise and deliberate. "You have two months. I will not come for you in these two months. But if you do not face me when the time comes, everyone from your universe will die."
Then she was gone.
Not teleportation. Not displacement. Simply absence, as though she had never been there at all.
