"You're… going to kill him?"
Why is she asking me that?Was she not the one who told me to kill her family? She went so far as to hide in the bushes, even deleted the footage of me torturing Stephanie, just to make me trust her. So why? Why is she asking if she already knows what my answer will be—
"Yes."
Riley still held Tomoe's younger stepbrother in his invisible grip, the boy now slightly raised off the ground, his legs kicking helplessly in the air.
"It… it hurts! P–Papa!" The boy gasped, clawing at his throat in a futile attempt to remove the unseen pressure around his neck. Panic overtook everything else—his pain, his confusion, his desperation—all of it condensed into a single, wordless plea for help.
But no help would come.
The boy's fear, however, only reflected how much Riley wanted—needed to kill him there and then.
