"I don't need your pity or worry and don't need your protection and will instead protect you," he retorts quite angrily as he releases the aura of an LVL 11.
Even Noah was worried, thinking of a person who depended on him outside, a person who would not be able to support herself, that person for whom he worked and almost killed himself over several times in the past four years. Under no circumstances would Noah allow himself to not leave this fortress alive today.