The training would be very severe


    “How will it be different compared to Tilura and my training?”


    “The main purpose of your training is self-defense. And it is not a punishment. In order to make someone a guard who can protect others, their training must be more severe.”


    “...I see.”


    “If you are interested, Mr. Takumi... You should ask Philip or Nicholas.”


    It was true that protecting someone else was a different matter, and probably required very different training.


    Well, not that I would know.


    Just then, Sebastian suggested that I speak with Phillip or Nicholas about it.


    I suppose it was possible that they had been trained by Mr. Ekenhart...


    Indeed, they were capable guards, and Nicholas could use a katana, which was a rare sword.


    “Yes, though they may not want to talk about it...”


    “How bad was it...Mr. Ekenhart...”


    “Haha. They were on the brink of death, that is all.”


    The brink of death... Surely that is going too far?


    It was a good thing that Tilura and I were only training to defend ourselves...


    “Well, we can leave Mark to His Grace’s care. He already decided it, so there is no point in trying to stop him now.”


    “You understand me well, Sebastian.”


    “Well, Mr. Takumi is very fond of her. And so is everyone in the mansion. But Leo were to act, she might destroy the whole town. She almost did it recently.”


    Indeed, even if I was angry that this Deam had given the order for people to throw rocks at Liza... I wouldn’t then use Leo to destroy the town.


    “Well, in any case... Deam. Even if we wanted to do something, we do not know where he is currently.”


    “Really? I thought he was in the Ractos slums.”


    “That is true. However, he changes location every day. As people from the slums are among his subordinates, he is able to move while remaining hidden from the guards. Though, if I put all of my people on it at once, they might...”


    “But then it will be obvious that you are involved. And that information will spread to the other towns...”


    “Hmmm...”


    In other words, he needed to do it in a way that didn’t expose his involvement...


    Leo and I lived in the mansion, and were seen in town with the duke’s people.


    However, I wasn’t an employee...even though there was a contract. I just gave them herbs.


    As the herbs were made with Weed Cultivation, not many people knew about them.


    So even if people knew that I worked with the duke’s store, they shouldn’t know that I was deeply involved with the house.


    Especially not people who lived in the slums.


    Well, there were some stores we had visited multiple times. But I doubted that they would be leaking information.


    If they did, then Ms. Claire or Mr. Ekenhart may not visit them as customers anymore.


    And being connected to the store was a much bigger advantage than being connected to the slums.


    Besides, none of the people we had bought from looked like they would become involved in criminal activity...