What happened was quite simple, actually. Merlin, like many other strong people, can see if someone holds the intention of killing her or not and, given by that line of thought, she allowed me to get closer to her.
When I touched her hair, I directed my dark energy into her, which included both Dark Mana and bits of Death energy of my own. She must have got a notification like
[Death energy is being balanced with Life Energy. Would you like to proceed?]
Obviously, she proceeded with it and let me do what I was doing. Honestly, there were two main reasons for her to do this.
One is that she had no idea what would happen if she lost all her death energy. While I know that she will die, she, on the other hand, had no idea, hence a fear of the unknown developed inside her.
