My clothes shrank until my clothes didn't slip off my body anymore as Charles remained still in Miliana's arms. Miliana shrieked in surprise when Charles suddenly sat up with fire in his eyes. His face twisted into a scary smile as he laughed in the middle of nowhere.
"Oh, you're dead Rika," a younger version of Charles oddly repeated over and over again.
"Oh please, what can you do?" I softly mumbled.
Charles picked up a needle on the table beside us and stabbed it into my arm before I could dodge. I screamed as my body felt like it was being struck by lightning. The electricity made my skin crawl up in the air and my body throbbed immensely in consistent pumps.
"This is quartium, it helps people with mana deficiency," he sniggered like a villain.
This was war now. My body trembled f
