Nakaji watched the Sinner flee like a fox flushed from winter reeds. Every instinct told him to run her down as before, to strike obedience into the bitch like he’d done to any wretch who’d wavered at the bayonet charge. But he’d learned long ago that some prey required a trap, not a chase.
Yes. Let the damn fool blunder into some hadal’s claws. With luc…



