“What kind of monstrous transformation is this?” Dahlia couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing. Creating a hybrid heart through surgery was one thing, but how could it happen so fast and intelligibly as if those heart pieces had minds of their own? Though she was against it when Rye had said she wanted to destroy all the experimental data of the vampires, Dahlia was beginning to change her mind now. “I heard that in the outside world, lizard beings live in some people and mimic human behavior, but this is far creepier than that.”

Dahlia’s hairs stood on their ends, but she knew that she had to fight and kill this monster if she wanted to get out of the cave.

Putting her fears aside by sheathing her daggers and changing her breathing pattern, she was able to absorb the little oxygen that was available in that deepest part of the cave. Her pineal gland activated, and so her eyes glowed blue, though only slightly. The tone of her daggers also gained a level of blueness. The energy reson