"Ah, but you... Si Kai, was it?" Lamashtu sneered.
"Look at you, all loyal and brave, trying so hard to protect your dear sister. It's almost touching. Almost. But look around."
He gestured lazily to the soldiers and survivors.
"They know it's over. They're just waiting for the inevitable. And yet, here you are, clinging to a corpse. How pitiful."
Si Kai's vision blurred from the pain coursing through his body, but he refused to let go of Gu Jin.
"How do you know my name?"
"It's pretty easy you know. We have an ability that could allow us to know the names of anyone present here.
Not only that we can also predict when someone can die." Lamashtu smiled.
"You talk too much," Si Kai spat through clenched teeth, though his voice trembled.
"If you want me, then come and take me."
Lamashtu laughed—a deep, sinister sound that sent shivers down the spines of everyone present.