Reborn as the Henchman Who Protects the Villain novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Dawn Breaks
Shi Wen did not have time to think.
He had time to shout, which was what he did.
"Linxiao! Hand!"
The Sect Lord did not look round.
He dropped his black sword and took one long step to the lip of the bowl.
He clamped his bare hand over Shi Wen's, flat on the cracked pearl of the moon.
Two lamps, two hands, one fallen light.
Dawnbreak came down on his chest.
It struck him full in the heart, a hand's breadth under the white fur, and Shi Wen heard Zhu Hongdao draw breath to laugh.
The laugh did not come.
Where the sun-iron touched the knot, the moon's gleam rose through the Lord's body, thin and warm and silver, and met the gold.
A thousand years of hunger had been fed a little in the last minute.
It was not hungry now.
It was only bright.
The note of the sword rose, and rose, and cracked.
Dawnbreak shattered along its length in a ring of gold sparks, and the sparks flew back into the Peak Master's hands and face.
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