The dragon shifted its gaze immediately, shielding its eyes. It already anticipated that Lucy would come to it once more, but so what?
Any casual movement from it would nearly kill that human. On the other hand, no matter how hard that human struggled, the best it would do is crack a scale or two.
Who even cared?
Lucy did. She moved forward as the Azure Dragon predicted, closing the distance in three seconds and throwing herself under the dragon's jaw with both her daggers ready. She found the spot she had been looking for, a single scale that was lighter than the others, almost blue-white instead of blue-green.
She drove both daggers into the edges of the scale and pulled.
"Nghhh…" Groans left her mouth as she put her entire body into pulling. The scale was holding firm.
She refused to let it go like this. She pulled harder, even as her arms strained, and the strings on her rings cut into her fingers.
Crack.
