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The first sinner; Nufuli, is a 'sinner' for a reason. He wasn't ever really doing anything heroic if he were to gain nothing from it. Even when the koi hybrid went and saved the server from exctinction, killed a power-hungry God, and hunted bounties for other people - he was selfish; revived the world for his dead friends, killed a God to protect a sinner, and hunted for those alike the all-consuming God he slayed. He wasn't really one to protect weak people from a dangerous abyssal lemming.
Yet here he is, finishing off the aforementioned abyssal lemming right in front of Bug; the same person who he had so cruelly killed for that bounty hunting job all those years ago.
Gopg was no longer here to protect her, and neither was the leader of the dum pirates - Dumb, they were out looking for any sort of netherite scrap in the nether with their only two pairs of frost walker boots. And before they knew it - came the monster from behind her. Maybe if Mari wasn't such a heavy sleeper, they would've managed to fend off the abyssal creature..
- And with a final wind charge up, the fish hybrid flew up and - upon landing - the globe of the dense mace crushed the armoured creature almost kneeling to it.
The guy who she could just scarcely recognize from the past quickly turned to them, with the same, dark blue eyes that were once so willing to eradicate her presence .
"You're the - no.." He cut himself off. Only after the short silence between the both of them does he actually talk once again. "Are you okay?"
The alien-cat hybrid takes a little step back."Well - I am now.." Her eyes drift across what was once an armoured abyssal lemming. "Uhm,, thanks."
The half koi fish in front of them hummed in thought.
"Is there anyone else you're camping with? Like, you know,, Gopg? Or any other teammate?"
"Why would you.. Wanna know that?" Bug's antennae flicked downwards, as her eyebrows furrow.
"I'm uh,,"
"Well, I'd- you know - preface this by, apologizing for what I did back then... Would you mind letting me into that house there - behind you?" He points to the house of what was supposed to be oak wood. "With how even the floor is dangerous nowadays, it's pretty preferable to talk to people indoors."
"So basically -"
"Me and another person - Galaxy - lead a whole camp, of sorts. And it's kind of like a safe place for anyone who we find." The half koi fish laid his left hand on the handle of the now bloodstained mace. "So, I wanted to ask you and anyone you could be with if you guys wanted to come stay with us."
"O-kay... But, uhm.."
"How did you guys - or you - find me here in the first place?"