They're of a race that lived long ago. They needed a certain gemstone that my mentor [surrogate mom] possessed to eliminate their weaknesses to sunlight, hamon, and likely anything else.
[Which...he doesn't know about any other weaknesses, but he's not going to 100% rule out them being secretly weak to yew or something stupid like that and just not mentioning it to him for obvious 'he's trying to kill them' reasons.] It's family business. Though you're right - I want to get back. There's something I need to return.
[...yeah, wow, this is suddenly depressing. He's not to the point of angsting off into the darkness, but he's to the point of glancing off into the darkness for a second only to find that there's five boars below them, and that gets him stare because...well.
They probably won't kill them.
But if either of them has to head off to pee for a second or whatever and want privacy that's going to be awkward.
...no, wait! That's a lie!
It's actually seven boars. Whatever. Back to watching Dirk work.]
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[Which...he doesn't know about any other weaknesses, but he's not going to 100% rule out them being secretly weak to yew or something stupid like that and just not mentioning it to him for obvious 'he's trying to kill them' reasons.] It's family business. Though you're right - I want to get back. There's something I need to return.
[...yeah, wow, this is suddenly depressing. He's not to the point of angsting off into the darkness, but he's to the point of glancing off into the darkness for a second only to find that there's five boars below them, and that gets him stare because...well.
They probably won't kill them.
But if either of them has to head off to pee for a second or whatever and want privacy that's going to be awkward.
...no, wait! That's a lie!
It's actually seven boars. Whatever. Back to watching Dirk work.]