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The G-frog one trembled. His arms twitched. Something ancient in his swamp-born blood remembered the sensation of being hunted. Of being prey.
Kai didn't say another word. He just smiled. Not wide. Not flashy. Just a small, terrifying curl of the lip that promised, "I'm going to feed on you."
A moist croak filled the air. G-Frog was still in shock from Kai's eyes.
"Come on, hot stuff, I ain't afraid of you." he declared, wiggling his webbed fingers like a drunk seductress. "Let me feel your—"
He never got the chance to finish. Kai vanished from his location. No blast of aura. No flash of warning. Just… gone.
One heartbeat.
One twitch.
One flicker in the smoke and Kai was already behind him.
His obsidian armor shimmered with bloodlight. His right arm had speared clean through G-Frog's wide, jiggling chest like a hot blade through soft mud.
