Chapter 90 The Great Hunt 11 (2/2)

”Where's my stuff?” John interrupted her and coldly asked. He was still on guard.

He knew that in the Ceremonial Hunting Caverns, it was kill or be killed to the young Floran hunters.

”Oh...” Nuru turned her head to the side and took a few thing that were on the ground beside her, ”You mean thisss thingsss?” She showed an object that looked like a wrist watch, the PIPS, a holster with a white pistol, and the sheathed black dagger.

”Yes...” John nodded and took a step forward to reach out for his items.

Nuru swiftly retracted her hand that was holding the objects, ”Why would I give them back?” She asked while grinning, but her eyes flashed with a mischievous light.

John froze in his place, then realized that he wasn't in position to ask for his stuff back.

However, John still stared at her and reached out with his hand.

Nuru easily dodged John's charge while she grinned at him.

”What do you want?” John gave up after only one attempt because he felt that the wound in his abdomen had opened and started to bleed. ”You saved me, don't you? Why?”

Nuru sadly Return to her placed by the bonfire when she saw that John gave up. When she heard John's question her smile widened a bit. ”Do I need a reassson to sssave sssomeone?”

John was speechless for a moment. She was right she doesn't need a reason to save someone, but...

”This is the Ceremonial Hunting Caverns...” John said while glaring at her. ”It's kill or be killed...”

”Really...?” Nuru played around with John's PIPS, then she smirked at John's remark. ”Then....why haven't you killed thossse Florans back then...?”

”Back then...?” John pondered for a moment before he came to a realization. [She was the one that was watching him the whole time in the previous landscape. I was able to feel that someone was always watching me.]

”You saw it...”

”I sssaw a lot more than you think.” She spoke once again. ”Why don't you kill?” Nuru dropped her head to the side and curiously asked John. ”And I'm very curiousss asss to why and how a human had found his way into the Ceremonial Hunting Cavernsss. But I have a feeling that you won't tell me, right?”

”It's... complicated. As for why I don't kill, it's because.....I can't just kill some innocent people...”

”Innocent!?” Nuru exploded in laughter. ”Every sssingle one of the Floran huntersss here have their fair ssshare of blood in their handsss.”

John froze for a split second before he went back to normal.

Yes, he knew deep in his heart that all those hunters that were partaking in the Great Hunt already had experience in killing both animals and people.

However, he couldn't make himself cold-hearted enough to just execute the young Florans.

”Although I have to commend you for having sssuch ssstrong sssense of jussstice and all, I alssso have to warn you that thisss isn't sssomething good. This sssense of jussstice will get you killed in the future. I won't be sssurprised if sssomeday you die by sssomeone you saved or you didn't killed.” Nuru flashed a wide grin at John before she went back to roast some kind of meat in the bonfire, ”But you are lucky. I sssaved you only because I sssaw your previousss actionsss. If you had killed thossse huntersss from before I wouldn't have bothered to sssave you when you needed. Ssseeing how you persssevered in not killing after so many battlesss, made me admire your courage and determination.”

John silently sat opposite to Nuru, by the bonfire.

”While I usually doesssn't kill, it doesssn't mean that I don't kill.” She threw a side glance at John while maintaining her smiling face. ”Sssooooo... don't do anything that could make me want to end your life, okay?”

”Yes...” John answered with a faint voice while averting his eyes from Nuru's glare. Just that one glance made John feel a chill down his spine.