As Xylon unleashed those venomous words, his own turmoil surged within him, a tempest of emotions that had been suppressed for too long.
In that instant, he didn't care in the slightest about Eva's feelings. His anger, bitterness, and frustration with his own existence collided, creating a storm of resentment that threatened to consume everything in its path.
For a moment, he wanted to strip away the veneer of her pure soul, to corrupt her, if only to bridge the chasm that separated them.
He yearned to shatter the ethereal image he had held of her, to make her understand . He believed that if he could taint her with a fraction of his own cynicism and despair, he might finally find common ground, a shared understanding that had long eluded them.
In the beginning, when Xylon first realized that he had been reincarnated into this new existence, Eva was but a distant figure on the periphery of his thoughts.