Murderous desire rose in Sophia.
She now looked at the demon like he was a proper threat.
Yet, at the same time, there was also a small trace of excitement blooming within her heart, but she did not show it outwardly.
Sophia's expression turned grim as she asked, "You!!! Who are you?"
Axel smiled beneath his mask, "Osiris…"
Then he also asked in return, "And you are?"
The Valkyrie narrowed her eyes, but still chose to answer, "Sophia…"
But the next moment she stated once more, with a tone of apprehension, "That was a wrong question; what I should be asking is… What exactly are you? You're no mere demon, are you??"
There was a long stretch of silence as Axel did not respond immediately, gazing at her red eyes with a complicated array of emotions; he didn't mind her murderous look towards him.
For a moment, a string of words surfaced in his mind, as if engraved on his existence in a long-lost past; he uttered them, driven by an unknown urge: "I am your Pharmakon…."
