Life

Cain couldn't suppress a faint, triumphant grin as he watched the energy beam crash into the woman at point-blank range. The resulting explosion—so bright that it outshone the sun—ignited a cataclysmic upheaval in the sky. He saw the stellar ocean she had summoned begin to unravel, its vast waters evaporating under the beam's power. At the same time, space-time itself seemed to buckle for hundreds of kilometers around them. In that moment, with the sky shaking and the horizon splitting under cosmic force, a single hopeful thought rippled through his mind:

'Did I really win?' Yet, before he could even savor the possibility, a voice howled through the blinding explosion.

"AHHHHH! YOU FOUL, DISGUSTING BEAST!"

The words were raw with agony and rage. They carried no restraint, no regal authority, only the savage cry of someone hurt beyond measure and who had lost all control over her emotions.