[As the cold blade pressed without a trace of warmth against the skin between her brows, the woman lying collapsed in a pool of blood, with only half her mangled body remaining, underwent an unbelievable, subtle change in her pupils, which had been tightly contracted in utter shock.]
[Her exceptionally keen instincts as an apex predator allowed her to see through your cruel arrangement in an instant after a brief daze.]
[She realized that the inhuman being standing before her possessed the absolute power to erase her completely in an instant.]
[If this assassination attempt had been purely intended to take her life, then the moment the security door was pierced, that defense-ignoring blade could have aimed straight for her neck and cleanly decapitated her.]
[Had that been the case, none of the struggles that followed or the brutal clash of domains would have happened.]
[You had clearly held back deliberately, using extraordinarily precise violence to strip away her ability to resist and create this situation in which she was entirely at your mercy.]
[Once she understood that logic, the woman seemed to accept completely that she could no longer turn things around or change her miserable defeat.]
[What was chilling was that she showed none of the breakdown or hysteria an ordinary person would display when facing death and severed limbs. Instead, she quickly pulled herself out of the extreme shock of having her cursed technique forcibly interrupted and her domain crushed.]
[An incomprehensible hint of ease actually appeared on her bloodstained face, even carrying a strangely carefree air.]
[Along with an extremely faint fluctuation of cursed energy, you keenly sensed wisps of white light containing positive energy struggling to shine at the smooth cut across her waist and abdomen and at her severed arm. She was trying to