Darkness spread from beneath their feet, forming a hemisphere around them in an instant.
The blood that had already shot forth stopped dead in midair, unable to advance another inch.
Choso had been dragged into the domain!
In that instant, terror seized him.
Was this woman really a sorcerer of this caliber?!
I let my guard down. The technique's sure-hit effect is coming!
Sure enough, a cold gaze locked onto his position the very next instant.
He immediately felt as though she could see straight through him, as though he were transparent-or a book she could leaf through at will.
The domain kept reading everything in his past, then transmitting it to the woman standing opposite him!
His cruel birth, the years he had spent trapped in a petri dish after becoming a cursed womb, everything he had done since taking over a body and returning to life...
Every last detail unfolded in Riko Amanai's mind.
Unfortunately, aside from Choso's own face, which remained clear in those memories, everyone else's seemed veiled in mist, impossible to make out or identify.
But if all she needed them for was [Condemnation], that was enough.
"So that's how it was..."
Riko Amanai's gaze grew a little colder. The cursed energy surrounding her made her deep-blue eyes gleam, refracting a clear, glasslike light.
Like ice long frozen beneath the deep sea, like snow on lofty mountains that had never melted through the ages, like wind, like rain.
And like the bright moon hanging high overhead, weighing all the world's sins.
"You deceived the innocent."
The first thing Choso had done after regaining his freedom was follow someone else's orders, turning a woman who had been perfectly safe into shackles that trapped a fledgling.
Forcing the kindhearted to do evil...
That was a [Sin].
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