Mimi blinked once, and her eyes shimmered faintly. "Big Brother Max is helping Mimi?" she asked again, and then, suddenly, her lips curved into a wide smile. "Mimi is hungry. I want some food from Big Brother Max."
The moment she spoke those words, the atmosphere around them shifted violently. Max's expression changed as he felt his entire body react. His energy, which he had been maintaining with great effort, suddenly turned unstable. The flow of mana within him became chaotic, surging toward the surface as though trying to escape his control.
He gasped in shock as his black flames flickered and vanished, and his Dragon Scales Transformation began to unravel. The armor of scales that had protected his body crumbled into fading black light, leaving his form exposed.
