Ye Chuan chose not to save him.
His perspective was cold and cruel, like a scientist waiting for a script to continue playing out.
In the end, Kite, the powerful Beast Hunter, was easily killed after an encounter with Neferpitou so brief it could hardly even be called a battle.
His head was taken back to the nest by Neferpitou like the most precious of trophies.
Having successfully escaped, Gon Freecss and Killua Zoldyck stood on a distant hillside and sensed Kite's Nen presence vanish completely.
"Kite..."
"No... this... this can't be real..."
Gon Freecss gazed at the silent forest in the distance. His eyes, always so full of sunshine, were utterly engulfed by boundless rage at that moment.
His desperately stifled sobs echoed for a long time through the open skies of NGL.
Ye Chuan's figure silently appeared atop an enormous ancient tree not far behind them.
He quietly watched the two brats, who had fallen into immense grief and self-reproach over their companion's death.
There was not a trace of pity in his deep black eyes, only a hunter's cold calculation.
"The curtain has risen on the game's opening act."
"Before Meruem fully matures..."
"I'll use the three guards to properly test the true limits of this body with its Saiyan bloodline first."
"The hunt..."
A cold, demon-king-like smile curled Ye Chuan's lips.
"Has officially begun."
When the firsthand intelligence brought back by Gon Freecss and Killua Zoldyck reached the Hunter Association's headquarters, the association, which took protecting humanity as its duty, was shaken to its core!
An unknown species of creature capable of easily killing a top professional Hunter of Kite's caliber!
Its threat level was instantly raised to a calamity of the highest order!
To confront this enormous crisis that could threaten the survival of