There followed a wicked grin on the woman's face. "Didn't you know that their mana is infused with lethal poison, making it undesirable for anyone to absorb spirit energy from these creatures? This poison was so potent that it would kill any living thing that ingested it."
Vandread was astounded by what he had just heard. At first, he didn't buy it, and it wasn't until the mountain lion finally stopped roaring and making piercing cries as it fell to the ground that he believed it. It appeared as though its entire body had been stoned, as it was completely rigid.
At that moment, Vandread began to understand everything much better. He didn't want to believe it, but after piecing together the clues the woman had given him and seeing the mountain lion's death, he realized that whatever was happening to him was almost certainly the result of the poison.
