Chapter 15

Kai laid on Sydney's body and hugged her tightly. Sydney couldn't even move, she was paralyzed on the bed, her body was covered with sweat, and only her bountiful snow-white chest was moving up and down with her breathing, but Sydney felt an indescribable beauty continuously and slowly melting her entire body...

Sydney hugged back Kai tightly, her head placed on his left chest as she was lying on her back, her lower body was tightly attached to the lower body of Kai, their thighs entangled. Kai hugged Sydney's passionate body tightly, and his right hand slowly stroked Sydney's soft and smooth back, Sydney closed her eyes like a tamed cat, accepting Kai's caress.

The two of them seemed to not want to return to their original identities, they were both intoxicated with the sexual pleasure they just had. Kai's hand moved down, and Sydney fell asleep in the feeling of fullness and comfort after satisfaction.

Kai eventually followed her, dozing off into a deep and fulfilling slumber as he moved out of her and onto his side.

An unknown amount of time passed as they both slept quietly, the sun was setting and the night sky was turning pitch black. Faint traces of moonlight could be seen spilling into Kai's bedroom in the Asura Palace Garden.

Kai was sleeping peacefully with Sydney to his side, it seemed like a perfectly serene night before Kai heard a sudden shrill scream and felt frantic movement to his side that instantly awoke him.

Kai tried opening his eyes, but they seemed to be glued shut.

"What the..."

Kai tried to get up and call out to Sydney when he suddenly felt two sturdy hands wrap around his throat before he could even say her name, "Syd..." was all Kai managed to mutter before he was abruptly strangled.

Kai felt like his senses and abilities were chained with a lock the same way he couldn't even open his eyelids as he tried to fight off the attacker, he couldn't do anything, just slowly suffocate from the two powerful hands around his throat.

Kai tried so hard to breathe, his heart racing faster than ever but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't catch his breath nor move his body.

"Is this how I'm going to die? strangled in my sleep?"

Kai wondered as he seemed to be falling in and out of consciousness with each passing moment.

Kai was surprisingly calm at his impending doom thanks to his tenacious and unyielding mind, the many years of suicidal training gave him time to think properly and not panic in any situation.

'All I want to see is who in the hell is doing this...'

'Why?'

'Just what kind of coward are you for trying to kill me in my sleep?'

Kai's eyes eventually managed to flutter open using all of his willpower, but the only thing he saw around him was darkness.

Kai felt a primal chill at the mysteriousness of the current setting, usually with his powerful spiritual sense he would be able to see in the dark, but he couldn't see any evidence of something strangling him nor any face or person.

The weird thing was that he still couldn't breathe, it felt like he was drowning while he also felt like someone or something was watching his every movement as he looked around in the absolute darkness of his bedroom.

Kai managed to prop himself up on the bed, he still saw no sign of Sydney as he scoped the completely dark room, his hands slowly but surely felt around his neck just to make sure, but there were no fingers or objects choking him.

Why was this horrible suffocating feeling never going away then?

Kai's raspy voice called out to the darkness

"why...why...do...you...keep...doing...this...to...me?"

Kai heard a chuckle, it wasn't really a chuckle but more like a devilish creature making a fiendish sound of amusement in his ears.

Kai was finally able to see the outline of a dark and vague figure in the complete and utter darkness across the room, the figure had it's human-like back towards Kai before abruptly turning around.

Kai couldn't see the figure's facial features in the dark, all he could see was a blurred face with bright scarlet eyes, looking extremely sinister as the figure slowly inched closer, small horns could be seen on the top of its head.

Kai was frozen on his bed, feeling the suffocating feeling enhance as the figure came ever so closer, but Kai never withdrew his gaze as he continued to stare at the fiendish figure's eyes.

The tall and vague figure halted, standing just before the edge of the bed as it looked down toward Kai.

"D-Demon?" Kai muttered under his breath.

Even without seeing the figure's facial features, only it's scarlet eyes in the darkness, Kai could see the smugness in its eyes, it felt like it was looking at him like it was just playing with its food.

Kai couldn't move, the overwhelming feeling of suffocation still assaulted him as he saw the devilish figure move even closer to his face, the small horns could be seen clearly on its head before its mouth opened revealing sharp rows of teeth.

SNAP

The dark figure suddenly lashed out at Kai with its nasty mouth wide open.