@AlmondMagnum - Yeah. I agree. He's been pretty trash as of late.
@JavelinJoe - Even his system is going: "You should run away" but he says "Shall I just be a crazy bastard?"
I know he put on a show a few chapters ago, saying how he had gotten swept away with the cockiness of the other Chinese hunters, but here he is doing the very thing that he was assuring us that he wasn't doing anymore.
On top of that, while he had expressed that he wasn't planning on marrying her, he knows her feelings for him and yet doesn't say that he isn't interested, and in the previous chapter actually accepts the idea of a date and seems to be interested. He's sending mixed messages and being deliberately obtuse to her.
So far he ends up thinking what he really means and only says vague or hurtful statements instead of saying something like: "Look, I am going to be hunting something that is extremely dangerous, and I think it will take all of my power to fight it, so I certainly won't be able to protect you while I am fighting it. I don't want to see you hurt, which is why I would like you to not accompany me." She's a professional hunter, if he (who can stand on the same level as her father) says it that way, she would be able to understand it (aside from the usual bad writing which has been afflicting her as of late).
However, he has to say it the other way in order to continue the misunderstandings and drag out the drama for drama's sake.