The purple sheen along her blade deepened until the air around it shivered. Mana flowed into the steel like venom into a fang. When she answered, the words were soft but absolute. "You do not understand. You never will. You are incapable of doing so."
Her blade hummed with a venomous hiss, the sound of which set teeth on edge. The purple aura spilled outward in a thin mist that tasted of iron and old graves. Soldiers nearest the front heeded Elder Chizuru's words as if they were orders of the Goddess herself, bolting far away from the confrontation.
Black Fang did not move; she only leveled the point of her sword at Chizuru and Kaede.
