As the medicine flowed into her veins, the room grew so quiet that only the faint sounds of the instruments could be heard.
Everyone around her unconsciously held their breath.
Kanae, the one undergoing the procedure, still appeared calm and composed.
But whether it was Tamayo and Yushiro, who were demons, or the powerful Shinobu Kocho,
they could all hear the heartbeat quickening with tension in the young woman's chest.
Kanae felt the warm medicinal fluid travel along her arm toward her heart.
A faintly burning sensation gradually spread over her arm, neck, and chest.
Kanae waited nervously for a while.
Then she tilted her head in mild surprise. "It seems... I don't really feel anything special."
Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief at her words. Shinobu Kocho pressed a hand to her forehead, her voice still tinged with lingering fear.
"Sister, you scared us half to death."
Yet Shinobu did not hear her sister's familiar soft chuckle in reply.
She looked up in confusion.
She found that Kanae, who had seemed perfectly fine just moments ago,
now had her eyes wide open.
Her pupils rapidly dilated, and her body visibly began to tremble.
A few veins bulged along the young woman's neck and even at the corners of her eyes.
Her tightly bitten lips showed that she was doing everything she could to endure the excruciating pain throughout her body.
Individual differences, along with the differences between humans and mice, had delayed the onset of the War Mark drug slightly compared with the laboratory mouse experiments.
That burning sensation erupted from her heart, spreading through Kanae's entire body like magma.
Along with the delayed agony came a sharp rise in her body temperature.
From close enough, one could even see faint waves of heat and steam rising from