Protect
Both words in one sentence
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Doakes instead of rescuing him, just to protect Dexter from being discovered as the Bay Harbor Butcher, as well as to save him the trouble of doing it himself.
Source: Lady Macbeth - Gender-Inverted in A Brother's Price; Cira, who has been rescuing Jerin from kidnappers reassures Jerin that she is willing to marry him to protect his reputation.
Source: Honorable Marriage Proposal -
Hiko meets Kenshin after rescuing him from bandits to find that Kenshin has buried not only the bandits, but the slavers who were travelling with him, and especially raised three memorial stones for a trio of women who died trying to protect him.
Source: Manga / Rurouni Kenshin
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