Hurt
Hurt verb - To feel or cause physical pain.
Keeps
Both words in one sentence
- But he keeps going, keeps fighting villains who hurt him in more and more personal ways, to protect a corrupted city, without anything in return.
Source: Heroes' Frontier Step - It's only Corrin's intervention that keeps him and his fellow Vallites from trying to hurt her.
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In The Empress Game, there's a degree of this from Janeen after she betrays Malkor's team, as she keeps saying that it "wasn't supposed to be like this" and that nobody was supposed to get hurt.
Source: Apologetic Attacker
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