Awakening a Sleeping Giant

[Agree to become a dependency of the Pale Imperial Family in ten years.]

Li Hara intended to wake Katerne, the ‘bloodline of giants,’ who had been sealed for ten years, and present him with a contract to claim a subordinate relationship... but.

When she took the Zenona tree leaf from his mouth,

Katerne Hatem, who had raised his upper body, met her eyes with blood-red pupils like fresh blood.

“So it was you. My assassin.”

Li Hara did not realize that she had stopped breathing. It was fear.

The natural fear of prey meeting a predator, a feeling her animal instincts told her.

***

“Do you think I would just stand by and watch a contract that offers me nothing at all?”

Katerne rose from his seat. Li Hara had to tilt her head back for a long time to look up at his face.

It was completely different from looking at a man lying down. Merely standing before her was enough to make her shrink.

But she had not come here lightly either. This was, in her own way, a life-or-death adventure, her last hope.

“Then just put in what you want. And if this contract really has no effect at all, there’d be no reason for you to be this angry, would there?”

At Li Hara’s answer, which was smarter than he had expected, he lifted one corner of his mouth slightly.

“You know what kind of thing I want?”

His expression looked as if he might swallow her whole in one bite.