Kapitel 43: You got your ass beat?

Rai stops abruptly after hearing ruffles footsteps approaching his position. 

Zzzzt! 

"Woah!" As Rai perceives a threat, Keelan jumps out of the line of a lightning strike that is intended for his chest, but misses and instead hits a nearby tree. "Dammit, it's me!"

Rai turns to face him and looks at him with wide eyes for a while, trying to comprehend how he could have just appeared here right now without giving Rai any prior notice.

"How did you manage to be captured so quickly? I believed that no matter what, we were obliged to stick together." Rai asks while shaking his head in confusion.

Keelan responds with a shrug of his shoulders, "what was I expected to do when I was ambushed while with the target? Simply develop a seventh sense, kill them, and return home without receiving the signal?" He pauses for a time before adding angrily, "you're lucky you didn't get caught too."