Spirit of the Sword Ch. 01

She sighed again and didn't reply. In a few minutes she was sound asleep.

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Inside his chambers within his mansion high above the city streets within the walls of the wealthy sector, the professor considered the tip of his cane, which had shattered a few minutes earlier. Someone had clearly defeated his pet. How they had done it, he had no idea. But he would find out and would make them suffer for being foolish enough to think they could trifle with his affairs.