The group continued onward.
With Kite leading them, they kept tracking the three Chimera Ants.
They could now clearly sense that the Chimera Ant nest was nearby, but when they reached the edge of a cliff, Cordis suddenly stopped.
He looked at Kite in terror, hesitated for a long time, then asked in a trembling voice, "Should we run?"
Kite had clearly sensed that terrifying power too. At some point, sweat had covered his forehead, and he raised a hand to wipe it away.
Suppressing his fear, he calmly told Cordis beside him, "Take Gon and Killua and run."
Gon and Killua caught up just then. Hearing Kite and Cordis's exchange left them bewildered, but Cordis paid them no attention.
Instead, he roared furiously at Kite, "What do you mean?! If we're running, we're running together!"
He grabbed Kite's arm, trying to drag him away, but Kite quickly shook him off and seized Cordis by the collar.
"Get Gon and Killua out of here! We can't handle her!"
The instant those words left his mouth, Cordis saw something suddenly appear behind Kite, its sharp claws already reaching for him.
Cordis instinctively shoved Kite aside.
He tried to dodge as well, but he was too slow. The creature's sharp claws pierced his right eye.
She seemed not to have expected Cordis to suddenly push her first target out of the way.
But she didn't particularly care. Her enormous feline eyes calmly studied Cordis, and the sight of his azure eyes made the corners of her mouth curl upward.
"Such pretty eyes, meow~ They're like-"
The Chimera Ant twitched her cat ears a few times, rubbing her chin as she pondered for a long while.
Seeing her distracted, Cordis tried to pull her claws out of his eyeball, but the excruciating pain