Chapter 68

I did not hesitate to crouch down and put my ax into a battle position, waiting for the thing to get close enough for me to slash at, yet that simply did not happen.

The smile it had was only growing more unsettling, while the corners of her lips perked upwards and creased her face just for those creases to never reach her eyes.

After what seemed like an eternity I finally saw her feet move forward while his head tilted to the right even more.

*Thump Thump*

*Thump Thump*

My heart was beating rapidly, and she knew that.

With every step she took, the sweat on my forehead doubled and my heart rate skyrocketed even more than it had done before.

I was terrified.

Yet, as if it was my instinct. Something I would have naturally done in a moment like this, I smiled...

'This is fine.'

The smile was awkward and uncomfortable, nevertheless, I still smiled to the dismay of the woman, no... The creature in front of me.

Her smile froze, quite visibly in fact. While before I could visibly see the smile grow wider and wider, now it seemed like it had paused as well as the rest of her body, her foot simply hovering above the ground as it neither twitched nor moved the whole time as if someone had clicked the pause button on it.

'I'm going to kill it!'

Finally, as if the pause had been lifted off her and the slow-motion effect had been reduced, I watched as her neck snapped to the side in an abnormal manner. I had almost imagined seeing the bone sticking out of her neck, yet I saw nothing of that sort.

Her neck was just bent there as if it was something natural.

'On second thought, maybe I should run?' I thought with self-mockery.