The pressure coming off the demon girl pinned Hajin to the cratered wall, making it impossible for him to even draw a full breath. The purple grain in the air thickened into a heavy fog, the ground beneath them splitting wider as the gate's unstable dimension groaned under the weight.
"I told you," Cessy said, her voice cutting through the tearing sound of the dimension with perfect clarity, "you are not leaving me a choice here."
The spider did not wait for her to finish, her legs launching her massive body across the floor toward the girl. Cessy didn't dodge this time, her right hand lifting to catch the descending weight of the ten-shard anomaly without so much as bending her knees.
A shockwave of displaced air blasted across the pit, throwing Hajin harder into the wall as the ground under Cessy's feet disintegrated into fine dust.
