There were no tears, no cowardice, not even emotions belonging to a "human".
It was a pair of golden vertical pupils, brilliant as molten gold, yet indifferent and heartless as a deity's statue.
Kiana... no, she should now be addressed as the "Second Tenant" of this body.
Herrscher of the Void, Sirin.
At this moment, all the clues connected in Su Yu's mind: Kiana's flight, her self-loathing desire to die.
The source of the calamity, that "God" who made her struggle in pain within nightmares countless times.
Was right before his eyes.
"Lowly insect."
"To save such trash, you made yourself so wretched... Humans are truly hopelessly stupid creatures."
She sized up the man beneath her with a look reserved for garbage, her tone so soft it was hair-raising.
"No Stigmata, and no Honkai energy reaction."
"Just a... slightly stronger ant."
The fingers on his throat began to tighten.
Suffocation surged like a tide; Su Yu's face flushed red, the blood vessels at his temples throbbing violently.
"What? Not going to struggle?"
Watching the pupils of the man beneath her gradually dilate, the mockery in the Herrscher of the Void's eyes deepened. It was the peculiar malicious taste of a feline toying with its prey.
"Or are you already prepared to apologize to God with this body?"
A dead end.
This was a thorough dead end.
Whether in strength, speed, or reaction, it was impossible for Su Yu to counter-kill a Herrscher in this state, even a down-and-out Herrscher.
But in this instant hanging by a thread.
Just when the Herrscher of the Void thought she would see this man weeping bitterly and wagging his tail for pity.
He just stared at those high-and-mighty golden eyes, watching this arrogant "Queen" put on a posture of dominating life and death.
Then.
Su Yu laughed.
Not that open-minded laugh, nor a mocking laugh.
It was more like... seeing something ridiculously incredible, an air sound that couldn't be controlled overflowing from the throat.
At first, it was just a short "Heh", then it turned into intermittent low laughter accompanied by panting.
The Herrscher of the Void's movements paused.
Those golden pupils contracted slightly. This lowly rat, who should have been begging for mercy, not only didn't show fear but actually laughed out loud.
"What are you laughing at?"
The force in the Herrscher of the Void's hand subconsciously loosened by half a degree.
She stared at Su Yu. On that face distorted by suffocation, the eyes even reflected a bit of... playfulness?
"About to die, and you've gone mentally deranged, ant?"
"Ha... cough cough..."
Su Yu greedily snatched a mouthful of thin air.
There was no fear in his eyes.
Only a kind of pity, like looking at a retarded person, that made even a God feel uncomfortable.
"I'm laughing... laughing at you being a... cough cough, retarded child who doesn't understand the situation."
The Herrscher of the Void narrowed her eyes, the golden light in them sharp as knives.
"Situation?" She sneered, her fingers tightening again. "The situation is that your life is now held in my hand. As long as I use a little more force, your fragile neck bones will go crack..."
"And then?"
Su Yu interrupted her. He even tilted his head slightly, bringing his throat closer to her fingertips. This action was borderline provocation.
"Then what do you plan to do? Hug this corpse, and in this world without Honkai energy, become a lonely ghost who can't even eat pizza?"
The Herrscher of the Void's expression froze for a second.
"What did you say?"
Su Yu laboriously raised a finger and lightly poked the space above their heads—where a System warning box, visible only to him and Kiana, was hovering.
The numbers on it were flashing frantically.
[Warning: Vital signs abnormal]
[Warning: Anchor connection extremely unstable]
The Herrscher of the Void's pupils trembled violently.
She indeed felt it.
The moment she awakened in this world, that sense of detachment that followed like a shadow, that suffocating feeling of being rejected by the world.
Only the moment she touched the man beneath her did that fear of impending dissipation subside slightly.
"Despicable hu... man..."
The Herrscher of the Void gritted her teeth. The originally elegant mask cracked instantly, revealing the tyranny underneath.
"Trying to bind a God with such dirty means? Are you worthy?!"
Seeing this Queen's elegant mask shatter, the fierce killing intent that erupted did not change Su Yu's expression.
"You can try."
"Come on, do it? Choke me to death? High-and-mighty Queen!"
"Trading your noble Herrscher life for my rotten life, don't you think it's worth it?"
Su Yu grinned, revealing teeth stained with blood, smiling like a madman.
The Herrscher of the Void's hand froze.
Madman.
A thorough madman!
Looking at this man beneath her who didn't care for his life, an emotion named "absurdity" rose in the Herrscher of the Void's heart for the first time.
She had killed countless people and seen countless ugly states before death, but no one had ever dared to threaten her with this method of "mutual destruction".
And with such a scoundrel's face that said, "If you dare kill me, you lose big time!"
Watching the frozen Herrscher of the Void before him, Su Yu couldn't help but laugh inwardly.
Die?
As if no one had ever died before.
"What's wrong? Herrscher, don't you dare?"
Seeing the mockery on Su Yu's face.
The Herrscher of the Void sneered internally.
Since she couldn't kill him, she would make his life a living hell.
Capture him directly with her Authority, make him live in humiliation by her side, watching helplessly as that trash Kiana he tried so desperately to save burns this world to ashes.
"You want to die, right? Thinking I will grant your wish?"
The Herrscher of the Void released the hand choking Su Yu's neck and instead raised her other arm high.
In her imagination, the golden glow of Honkai energy would gather in her palm.
That was the Authority she took pride in, the Subspace Lance that tore through space.
"I will let you taste what it means to wish for death!"
Her eyes were fierce as she mobilized the boundless Honkai energy within her body, attempting to tear space and bring down divine punishment.
However.
One second passed.
Two seconds passed.
An awkward silence spread in the air, even more suffocating than the suffocation just now.
No purple light tearing through space, no trembling Imaginary fluctuations, and certainly no lances symbolizing destruction.
Nothing happened, nothing at all.
Only the night wind whistling past the rooftop, curling up a few withered leaves, swirling past the two of them, emitting a "whoosh" sound that seemed to be mocking them.
The Herrscher of the Void froze in place, maintaining that posture which was explosive with chuunibyou energy, her originally fierce expression solidifying little by little, finally turning into a blank look of disbelief.
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