All Chapters of The Sword Master Only Wants to Protect: Chapter 11 - Chapter 17

Ruby glared at him with those peculiar dark-red eyes. She growled and tried to pull her hands free from Rion's hold, but he held her down firmly."Look at me," Rion repeated.Ruby snarled at him savagely. She bared her teeth and bit his arm. Rion hissed in pain. He held both of Ruby's wrists in one hand and used the other to yank her hair back, so she released her teeth that were latching onto his arm.Ruby hissed and scrunched her eyes shut by the sharp pain on her scalp. It made Rion feel guilty that he loosened his hold a little but didn't let her go completely. Rion pulled her hair slightly so Ruby would have no other choice than to face him. She narrowed her eyes at him, full of anger and very unlike her usual self.

"You can stop talking and let us go if that concerns you so much," Rion answered sharply. He ran out of energy, and he run out of time. All he wanted to do was just to get away from here as soon as possible, as far as possible.Valienne shook her head slightly. "Had you really thought about your apprentice, Rion? Had you really thought about what is best for her? Do you think it would be more merciful for a half-blood in the human realm than in the demon realm?""You want to kill her," Rion spat. "And how would that be more merciful than any other choice she has?"The celestial ice demon scrunched her nose in distaste. "I want to kill her? Why would I want to kill her?""Then what else is your intention of taking he

When his consciousness slowly returned, Rion felt as if a hundred horses had run over his body before ground into dust under some boulders, and then molded back into one piece in the shape of a human body. His entire body hurt like hell. His head felt like it was filled with cotton.Rion tried to crack his eye open and immediately winced when the light felt like it stab his eyes.There was a sound of a chair scraping lightly against the floor and a rustle of clothes. His bed dipped slightly as someone put their weight onto it. A hand reached for his wrist, and then Lin's calm voice carried over from the side of his bed. "You're awake? Finally." Rion wanted to say something normal. Like, 'haha, of course, I'm Rion Ren from Liebu Mountain. I have nine lives, you said so yourself.' But Lin sent a pulse of her calm and steady energy into his sore body and what left out of his mouth was a pathetic groan of relief instead.Lin sighed, like she was too tired of nagging Rion about getting in