"Is it because you're afraid of me seeing your face?" Minamoto Wakasei demanded. "Because you're afraid I'll discover your secret, you'd rather choose death than let me see this side of you."
The boy's body gave a violent shudder. He finally turned his head, and the moment their eyes met, Minamoto Wakasei suddenly felt a chill run through his entire body. Those savage Golden Eyes glared right into his face. The boy indeed shared a nearly identical face with him, but at this moment, his expression was so terrifying he looked like a vicious ghost that had just crawled straight out of hell.
The instant his gaze locked with Minamoto Wakasei's, a flicker of something halfway between confusion and trance crossed his eyes. He looked as though he were trapped in a bizarre nightmare—sometimes murky, sometimes lucid; one moment like a bloodthirsty ghoul ready to devour anyone, the next like an innocent, clear-eyed boy... He was breathing in heavy, ragged gasps, large drops of sweat mingling with the rain running down his temples. He looked both tormented and conflicted, as if two souls were lodging inside his body, locked in a life-and-death struggle for control.
Chapter 646