"The more you struggle, the more it pleases me. So please don't stop. Let me watch you struggle like an insect! Let me watch the despair on your face when you realize how futile all your actions have been!"
Talia was unlike the girl Lucifer knew as the Empress of the Star Alliance. At the moment, she was completely like an arrogant demoness who was looking down on him.
But underneath all the bravado, Lucifer could sense a flicker of vulnerability in Talia's eyes. He knew that underneath all her confidence, there was a strange sense of fear. Although she appeared confident, she was cautious.
He didn't know if she was truly confident about his abilities or there was something about this trap that she didn't want him to see.
Unfortunately, the poison didn't give him much time to think about this. All he knew was that she wasn't the biggest threat to him. There was her family, about whom he had no information at all.
