"Cough...!"
Blood spilled from Elsa's mouth as she lay buried beneath a heap of shattered furniture.
Half of Elsa's forehead looked as though it had been blown apart.
The skin was gone.
Even more of her flesh had been shaved away.
Her skull was faintly visible beneath it all.
Calling it a gruesome, bloody mess would not have been an exaggeration.
"Just... one bullet...?"
Elsa's mind went blank. She seemed unable to believe that such an attack had pushed her to the brink of death.
Yet before long, that fatal wound began to change.
"Hiss..."
As though flames were burning within it, smoke rose from Elsa's forehead. Amid the smoke, her wound gradually healed, flesh returning to her brow.
"Mmph..."
Only then did Elsa's stunned mind begin to work again. Pushing away the furniture fragments pinning her down, she clutched her vicious blades tightly, struggled to her feet, and smiled toward the doorway.
"You really don't know how to treat a lady gently."
Her seductively sweet words were met with a calm retort.
"If it's a thorny rose or a bee, people may still be willing to pick it even if they get stung. But if it's a poisonous spider, that's another matter entirely."
Fang Li lightly flicked the hem of his knight's coat as he walked in from the burning doorway. His gaze fell on Elsa, and he studied her fully restored forehead thoughtfully.
Then, Fang Li suddenly spoke.
"Come to think of it, I seem to have read that aside from Demi-humans and Demon Beasts, there are also people in this world with special constitutions."
Fang Li's words made Elsa's eye twitch slightly.
But Fang Li was not wrong.
In this world, there were Demi-humans such as elves, Beastkin, and Oni, as well as races like the Demon