"Is that so?" Esdeath curled her lips in a scornful smile, glancing at the tear in her clothes at her waist. The black wound there had already healed, and the black fragments clinging to it had vanished, leaving behind only a line like a black thread. "Are you sure I'm fine now?"
"I couldn't say." Jiu Ming shook his head. "Even if the purification canceled out quite a bit of that black stuff, whether it'll get you through this crisis is another matter... Uh, looks like there is a problem."
As he spoke, Jiu Ming suddenly saw Esdeath's eyes turn black. Her irises were still ice-blue, but her eyeballs—her eyeballs had turned black. "Want to look in a mirror?"
Esdeath raised a hand and condensed an ice mirror before herself. "Only my eyes have changed?"
After seeing the change in her eyes, she spoke. The corners of those rioters' eyes had been entirely black, while hers were somewhat different. "You only noticed that after all this time?"
"No, I'm certain this wasn't happening before... Huh, why do you look like you want to bite someone?" Seeing Esdeath's expression suddenly become several degrees more savage, Jiu Ming decisively took a few steps back. So it wasn't that there had been no effect—it was just that her constitution was strong enough to resist it for a while. After dragging on for so long, it had clearly reached the point of outbreak. "Ugh! I don't know why, but I suddenly feel really pissed off. Especially when I see you—I especially want to kill you. What should I do?" Esdeath covered one cheek with a hand, her exposed eye fixed on Jiu Ming with an ominous gleam, a strained smile hanging on her face.
"Hey! You've definitely been affected. Hurry up and put that