Demonic mana flooded Hajin through the Chain until his damaged core stopped resisting.
The hunger answered her invitation before his judgment finished weighing it.
Cessy's first alarm changed into dark excitement as the connection fed violence back along both ends.
"You keep pulling from me," she said while purple light entered her eyes.
"Take everything you can survive holding, and then take even more of it."
Her cheeks had flushed dark, and her laugh carried a pitch he chose to distrust.
She released another surge before he answered, and the Chain carried it through his torn pathways.
He pulled one link, launching Cessy over the humanoid mother's charging shoulder.
Her ten Shards drove claws toward him, but Cessy planted a knee beneath the mother's jaw.
The impact snapped her head backward while Hajin passed below the collision untouched.
The taut Chain swung Cessy back to her feet while he rolled between stomping heels.
