"Kai!"
Andre sounded genuinely happy.
For about half a second.
Then his expression immediately changed.
"Took you long enough, dumbass!"
A cultist tried to stab him from behind.
Andre grabbed the man's wrist.
Headbutted him.
Then kicked him into the water.
An alligator immediately accepted the donation.
Kai decided not to look.
"You look terrible."
Andre glanced at his torn clothes.
His bleeding arms.
The bite mark on his shoulder.
Then shrugged.
"You should see the other guy."
The alligator beside him disagreed.
It was very much alive.
Kai sighed.
"Still talking nonsense."
"Still alive."
"Unfortunately."
Andre laughed.
A cultist rushed toward Kai.
Kai stepped forward.
The training he'd received from countless fights since arriving in this world finally showing.
The dagger flashed.
The cultist stumbled backward.
A punch followed.
Then another.
The man collapsed.
Nearby, Eric remained where he was.
Very far away from everything dangerous.
Which happened to be a reasonable survival strategy.
"I'm helping emotionally!"
Nobody listened.
The battle continued.
A cultist emerged from the shadows.
Kai barely avoided the blade.
The dagger cut across his sleeve.
Missing flesh by centimeters.
Kai retaliated immediately.
Driving his shoulder into the attacker's chest.
The man crashed into a wall.
Andre meanwhile had somehow acquired a wooden pipe.
No one knew where.
Not even Andre.
He swung it like a madman.
One cultist flew left.