The King's Queen

Chapter 28

Everywhere was cold as frost began to creep impossibly on the snow clad floor where she laid perfectly still. Watching in shock as ice pillars began to enclose her in their unforgiving tomb.

Her eyes were blown open in disbelief and bitter resignation, how was she supposed to fight this. Countering such a monster is truly a dream she knew she would never accomplish, "It's not a domain, so you can leave if you wanted. Well that's if you actually can." Oh how that perfectly detached voice poked at her patience, surely with the way her jaw set he could clearly tell how much she loathed him with every fibre of her being by now.

Whether he has the self awareness of a kumquat____ or the fact he just didn't care about her opinion of him, Uraume decided to speak again.

Further infuriating her.

"You are probably wondering how I can do all this, huh?" He questioned___ though with how he naturally sounds it came off as rhetorically condescending____ as he crossed his arms over his chest. She secretly agreed however she neither wanted to give him the satisfaction nor put herself at an even greater disadvantage.

However, instead he took her glaring silence as an affirmative response.

"In most cases, I would have just killed you by encasing you in a block of ice. Most of my adversaries usually die from suffocation or their hearts stopping. In fact I am not one to waste time being petty really," he paused as he stared at his opponent who stayed ideal on the floor, his violet eyes held a dangerous glint before he continued. "However, I don't hold mercy for those who carelessly tarnish my master's name."

She swallowed the lump that formed in her throat, cold sweat began to form at the back of her neck.

"It's simple really, it all starts with a Binding Vow___ the pinnacle of sorcery." Uraume untangled his arms as he gracefully lifted his palm into the air, the snow that covered the ground followed with it as it rose up. Leaving the moist ground bare. "By cutting myself off from my Domain Expansion, I effortlessly increased my cursed technique's range___ coupled with the fact that I have innovated my technique to require very little cursed energy to create large amounts of ice."

"Essentially, in layman's terms, you brought your domain out into the real world and thus avoid the extreme tax of actually summoning a domian." The woman shivered after coming to that conclusion, she truly didn't know if it was from the biting cold of the ice box she had been placed in or the fact she still had a heavily bleeding wound in her stomach____ which had a protruding glacier stuck in it, or the fact she had been fighting a literal force of nature, that was making her dizzy.

Slumping a little bit, she quickly chalked it up to her literally dying on the ground. The shock of pain after further impaling herself solidified her attempt to protect her pride.

"I wouldn't really say that since this is how my technique is naturally, just slightly adjusted to be of more use. After all, a domain is just an assurance that the technique will land a critical if not fatal hit."

Suddenly the snowflakes that had been suspended in air by their master started to gently move in a circle, much to the poor woman's confusion. Gradually they increased their speed, nipping and ripping at her sun burned skin. It wasn't long before screams of pain and anguish teared through the young woman's lips as Uraume clenched his fist causing a whirlwind to form in the room, with her being at the eye of the storm.

This of course caused the weather outside the ice dome to become erratic and unstable.

Sukuna had one of his hands placed firmly on his hips while the lower ones crossed over his other mouth and abdomen, his other hand was firmly on your small back as you wormed around his surprisely secure hold.