The instant Kali charged, Jade's eyes shone even brighter than Kali's blood-red pupils.
"Wow!"
She poked half her head out from behind Wangchuan, clutching her backpack straps with both hands and bouncing with excitement.
"Four arms! Four arms! Tso Lan, look, she has four arms!"
"Her tongue is so long! And it's dripping blood!"
"She kind of reminds me of how you looked before..."
Wangchuan: "..."
"Are those skulls around her neck? Are they real or fake?"
"Wow! She's flying over! She's really flying over!"
Loke turned his head, looked at Jade's face flushed with excitement, and twitched at the corner of his mouth.
"Has this kid been scared stupid?"
Sol gripped Mjolnir, lightning crackling over its head. As he stared at Kali drawing closer and closer, a vein throbbed on his forehead.
"No."
"She genuinely thinks this is fun."
Loke fell silent for a second.
"Are all your Midgard children like this?"
"She's an exception."
Wangchuan did not join their conversation.
He simply watched Kali.
The dark-skinned, four-armed figure, wreathed in a dark red aura of destruction, was reflected in his purple Lunar Phase Eyes. His expression barely changed.
But the corners of his mouth curved slightly.
"God of destruction."
"Shiva's wife."
"The Three Realms once nearly fell beneath your feet."
His voice was soft, as though he were talking to himself.
"Interesting."
Kali landed on the railing at the edge of the rooftop and raised all four arms at once. A sword, a discus, a trident, and a lotus-each of the four sacred implements shone with dark red light.
Her blood-red eyes swept over the four people on the rooftop.
"Destruction."
She said only that one word.
Then she moved.
All four arms swung down at once. Sword light, the discus, the trident's cutting edge, and the lotus's