Zeref paid no attention to whether Li was listening. He merely spoke softly. "Back then, I stopped caring about her and came to this land instead, infiltrating the worldly powers here... Until the day I remembered her and went looking for her. How laughable. That little girl was still the same after more than ten years, hiding away somewhere with no one around. She told me that, because she was afraid of hurting people, she hadn't eaten anything for years. How laughable... Don't you think so...?"
A surge of anger suddenly erupted from Li. He did not know why, but he had come to hate Zeref intensely. Or rather than hatred, Li now desperately wanted to kill Zeref...
He had never wanted to kill someone so badly!
Seeing the anger rise on Li's face, Zeref sneered. "Of course, that alone could never give me what I wanted. So I deceived her and told her I loved her... Then I triggered the Life Steal within her. In that instant, the curse on her body tried to devour me, but unfortunately, the curse on my body was far stronger than hers. Instead, all her life force was absorbed by me. Although that fool hadn't absorbed human life force for many years, the life force of all kinds of plants and animals was still quite a considerable amount... It was truly not bad..."
"You bastard! I've never seen anyone as shameless as you!" Li roared. His speed seemed to increase by several degrees, yet there was not the slightest trace of shame on Zeref's face.
Instead, Zeref burst into laughter. "And after my curse fused with hers, I obtained something strange." As he spoke, Zeref stomped directly on Bradman's face as he lay on the ground. Then, with a bang, blazing flames erupted