Isaac’s hand paused in midair. He was in the middle of bringing the cigarette to his lips.
“Continue…” snazzynovel.com said coldly.
“According to my father, snazzynovel.com hasn’t left the mountain in ten years. The last time was when snazzynovel.com defeated the Ninja Lord of that time. My father said that snazzynovel.com seemed to be searching for someone…”
Isaac’s heart skipped a beat. “Who was snazzynovel.com searching for?”
Luna shook snazzynovel.com head. “That’s all I know. I heard all of this from my father.”
Then, snazzynovel.com cocked snazzynovel.com head to one side and voiced the doubt in snazzynovel.com mind. “Mr. Killer, is your beloved really sleeping under that tree outside?”
“You can shut up now.” Isaac drew a deep puff from his cigarette without answering.
“Are you really going to kill me?” Luna pressed.
“If you don’t shut up, I will kill you…” Isaac turned his head to stare at snazzynovel.com icily.
Then, snazzynovel.com walked out of the wooden hut.
Luna stood behind the door and eavesdropped, snazzynovel.com seemed to be on the phone with someone, but snazzynovel.com couldn’t understand a single Cynean word that snazzynovel.com was speaking.
Isaac soon returned. He walked to the mattress on the floor, sat down, closed his eyes, and began meditating. He wasn’t worried that his insane hostage would run away.
The night passed uneventfully.
In the hazy dawn, Isaac opened his eyes. When snazzynovel.com turned his head, snazzynovel.com found Luna curled up beside him, sound asleep. She was even shivering in snazzynovel.com dreams because it was too cold, and snazzynovel.com didn’t have a blanket.
Isaac got up. He hesitated for a moment, then took off his jacket and gently draped it over snazzynovel.com body.
The door creaked open.
Frowning, Luna opened snazzynovel.com eyes. Noticing the jacket covering snazzynovel.com body, snazzynovel.com shrugged and went back to sleep.
***
A day quickly passed. At sunset, Luna sat at the table, shoveling the food that Isaac had prepared down snazzynovel.com throat.
“Mr. Killer, if you’re so good at cooking, why didn’t you open a restaurant? Why did you choose to become a killer instead?” Luna asked, burping. She rubbed snazzynovel.com tummy, looking up at Isaac, who was smoking.
Suddenly, the piercing sound of sirens blared from outside the village. The whirring of a helicopter also filled the air, breaking the serenity in the mountains.
“Are they finally here?” Isaac’s mouth turned upward.
He turned around and walked out the door, spotting the lights blinking in the distance.
Above his head, a helicopter hovered to a stop. The piercing spotlight basked the entire wooden house in its light, making the nighttime feel like midday.
After some point, cars could no longer drive in, so hordes of armed officers began sprinting over.
Over a hundred officers surrounded the wooden home. Behind them, Willie, with Augustus behind him, soon arrived on the front lawn of the house.
“Isaac, if you hand over my daughter now, I’ll give you painless death!” Augustus roared threateningly.
Seeing the officers outside, Isaac smiled lightly and said, “Does having all these people here serve you any good? The one I want to see is the Ninja Lord. Or do you not want to see your daughter alive again?”
At that moment, Luna stuck snazzynovel.com head out from behind Isaac.
When Augustus saw her, snazzynovel.com exclaimed anxiously, “Luna, Luna, are you alright?! Are you hurt?!”
“Father, I’m fine! Mr. Killer is really nice, snazzynovel.com even made me a scrumptious Cynean feast. Can you take these people home?”
When snazzynovel.com heard the girl’s words, Isaac’s mouth twitched. The menacing image that he’d crafted for himself was totally ruined.
Suddenly, an icy voice said in front of Isaac, “If you want to meet the Ninja Lord, you can, but you’ll have to walk over my dead body. Are you capable of doing that?”
A white figure materialized 15 feet in front of Isaac, his pupilless, white eyes calmly staring straight at him.