With a thunderous bang, Diana's gun fired, but the bullet whizzed past Vivienne's ear, barely grazing a hair.

Unfazed, Vivienne did not even flinch.

Diana, panic-stricken, stared at the figure before her, feeling her wrist trapped as if in an iron vise, pain radiating through her bones like a fracture in progress. "You... you're Sasha!"

Karen's gaze was heavy, a mix of the strange and the familiar.

She had never imagined that the story behind her kidnapping was so convoluted!

Clenching her fist, Karen threw a punch that landed squarely in Diana's gut with the force of a sledgehammer.

"Touch my daughter, and you're dead meat!"

Diana's punch could take down a full-grown mastiff, but Karen's blow could kill a full-grown bull.

The difference in strength was enormous.

Diana felt as if her insides had been rearranged, her nerves and flesh overwhelmed by pain. It was as if she was about to be ripped apart. The agony was excruciating!

Karen then slapped Diana's face repeatedly, and in no time, Diana's once delicate features swelled up like a balloon.

Diana tried to steady herself, to take another look at her adversary, but her swollen cheeks pressed so tightly against her eyes that they would not open!

Lifting Diana off her feet, Karen's fingers flew, sending needle after needle into Diana's scalp.

"Ah!"

Diana fell to her knees, screaming in torment.

The pain was unbearable!

the ground, Diana banged her head against rocks as if the blunt trauma could somehow dull the sharper

as her head was bloodied and

anger boiling inside Karen was

Karen had already neutralized the poison in her system the

bound, and settled

was their next

the display as if

two really do look so alike. I wonder if all daughters look like their mothers." Wearing Gillian's face, she sipped a glass of red

eyes, the silver needles in

determined

F-Poison?" Karen asked softly, as if in casual conversation, "You seem... younger than

soft stroke as

all I have left to charm the

mask and flung it towards Karen and Vivienne, the skin transforming mid-air into a whirling blade aimed at Vivienne's

"Frost!"

skin-blade, and kicked

energy, she hurled it towards F-Poison with lethal precision. The skin-blade buried itself in the tree where Vivienne had been tied, while the rock pierced F-Poison's thigh, embedding

seeped from F-Poison's wound, and

about to unleash her poison, Karen raised

something invisible in the air-particles that could trigger a violent explosion upon contact with poison.

side by side, united

clutching her wounded leg,

from the smoke, Karen

smoke cleared, they saw F-Poison holding Zelda at the cliff's edge, a hostage

hostage, what can you really do?" F-Poison taunted, gripping Zelda's neck tightly,

go up or down? Either way, I can accommodate

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