"Are you scared?"

Oni no Miko was looking down on Medusa as she stood atop Yamata no Orochi.

"Of course! I'm terrified!" Medusa replied with a fawning smile. "If I had known that you were this powerful, I wouldn't have gotten involved in this mess no matter how many cards I was promised. However, I'm a person of my word, so if you insist on fighting to the end, then I'll have to continue to oppose you regardless of how scared I am. 

“If I go back on my word, no one will want to work with me in the future. On top of that, if I cower here and allow the seed of fear to be planted in my heart, then my psychic body could be permanently weakened, and that's a completely unacceptable outcome to me."

Even though Medusa was speaking in a very mellow and modest manner, she wasn't backing down in the slightest.

For adapters of her level, backing down...