I have no intention of dying for such a trivial task as this. I simply intend to lure it out, in which case it will lose the element of surprise against you. But if we proceed together, we will both be ambushed.

[Having spent most of his life on the run, he knows a lot more than he should about these kinds of tactics when being hunted. ... Even if the people hunting him before weren't the flesh-eating kind.

Besides, he feels like he owes a debt to Trucy, for what he almost did to her in court. Taking a risk is the least he can do to repay her, right?]

I ask that you trust me. If things go awry, you may intervene.