[She knows what he's doing. She can see it in the taunting gleam of his smile and can feel it bearing down on her like a heavy weight with his stare, even as she continues to avoid letting her eyes move up to meet his.
Steeling herself, Tifa takes the smallest bite she's taken so far, and for a moment, she looks like she's about to stop there. The crowd groans in frustrated disappointment at her, but it isn't hard to ignore them when all she can hear now is her blood coursing through her, heading straight to her head.
"Only a little more! Will they make it!? I thought she was going to back down right there!"
Hearing that—that the bets were on Tifa being the first to back down—it's all the drive she needs to take another, bigger bite. A brief flicker of determination rages through her eyes, only to be quickly snuffed out by—
"Rules are that you can only take one! So now you have to give him two to make up for it!"
Wait, no one said anything about paying off bite debt!?]
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Steeling herself, Tifa takes the smallest bite she's taken so far, and for a moment, she looks like she's about to stop there. The crowd groans in frustrated disappointment at her, but it isn't hard to ignore them when all she can hear now is her blood coursing through her, heading straight to her head.
"Only a little more! Will they make it!? I thought she was going to back down right there!"
Hearing that—that the bets were on Tifa being the first to back down—it's all the drive she needs to take another, bigger bite. A brief flicker of determination rages through her eyes, only to be quickly snuffed out by—
"Rules are that you can only take one! So now you have to give him two to make up for it!"
Wait, no one said anything about paying off bite debt!?]