"Wouldn't it have been easier to do that from the start?" Su Yu's voice softened a little. "Tell me, who do you still want to take away now?"
Zi JI sniffled and mumbled pitifully, "No one... I won't take anyone ever again..."
All she wanted now was to get farther away from this terrifying human. She wanted to go home!
My lord, I want to go home!
She never wanted to see him again for the rest of her life!
Watching Zi JI's enormous dragon body huddled on the ground, sobbing as tears pattered down, Su Yu found the contrast rather funny:
"Change back into human form!"
Zi JI sharply turned her head aside instead, pointing her dragon horns at him with a stubborn look that said, "I can't hear you, and I won't."
"Oh, here we go again?"
Su Yu raised an eyebrow, and the wooden giant curled its index finger again, poised to flick.
"Don't, don't, don't!"
Zi JI cried out almost reflexively, and purple-black light flashed around her.
Her enormous dragon body rapidly shrank, and in the blink of an eye, she returned to her previous human form, dressed in a long purple gown.
As Zi JI regained her human form, the branches shrank along with her, still binding her body.
Su Yu also released the Wood Human Technique and walked up to Zi JI.
Her eyes were red, and a faint, aggrieved flush still colored her cheeks.
Bound all over with branches, she looked like a young wife who had been abducted and sold.
She muttered inwardly, I, Zi JI, the Hell Demon Dragon King, am not afraid!
I'm just... following my heart! A wise hero knows which way the wind blows, understand?
Seeing her angry, flustered appearance, like a little beast with its fur standing