“Ugh…”
Unlike how the man looked, Ian was overprotective toward Riley. He cared for Riley like one would care for a fragile little baby. That was the perfect way to describe Ian.
When it came to this, Ian was more overbearing than Riley’s mother. As Riley thought that, he sighed and asked Ian,
“Ian, didn’t you say my father was calling for you?”
“S-Still, it’s dangerous?!”
As he listened to Ian, Riley looked at Nainiae. She was waiting quietly with the carriage ready at the back end of the mansion where an entrance was. Riley sighed again and said,
“Come on. I have a Six Circles mage as the bodyguard here. Isn’t that enough?”
Nainiae might still lack the delicate skills as a maid, but when it came to functioning as a bodyguard, there probably wasn’t anyone in the mansion that could be more efficient at it than Nainiae.
After all, she was a Six Circles mage.
“…A mag…!”
Ian was about to say ‘A mage is!’ and say something to object, but he crumpled his face and quickly lowered his voice.
It was because there wasn’t anyone, besides the few that went to Solia with Riley, who knew that Nainiae was a mage.
“…”
Ian looked over the shoulders and checked other servants. There were a few cleaning up the garden area. He figured he should keep this a secret.
Ian scratched his head and came back to the main point.
“Anyway, I’m against this idea!”
“But you said before that I should stop sitting around and move a little, didn’t you?”
“But that was!”
It looked like Ian was going to explode from frustration.
With tightened fists, Ian pounded at his own chest like a gorilla. He continued,
“That was about swords. Your skill is…”
“You have a rough idea from what you saw at Solia Castle?”
Riley interrupted Ian.
Riley could no longer deny his own abilities to Ian. Making silly excuses, such as practicing some moves just in case, was not going to work either.
Back in Solia, at the castle’s restroom hallway, Ian clearly saw how Riley handled Erengium’s eldest son by demonstrating his real power. It was overwhelmingly flawless.
“…”
Ian was completely lost for words. He looked like someone who couldn’t speak because his mouth was full of sweets.
To be exact, what Ian saw that day was not just flawless. It was to the point Ian was having a hard time believing. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
“Let alone any training, you never once grabbed a sword, so how…”
“Well, that’s that.”
“Now that we are on this subject, I have to ask. What you did that day, how was it possible for you to do it?”
“I’m not sure?”
“Could it be that you already have mastered mana long ago?”
“I’m not sure?”
“I also think the mana measurement you did last time was odd. Did you adjust your mana when you were getting it measured?”
“I’m not sure?”
As Riley kept on spewing out ‘I’m not sure?’ as the answers, Ian quickly took steps back.
“Young master, by chance… You haven’t been using…”
“Ha! That’s right. Why don’t you go get a narcotic sniffing dog and raise it?”
Riley was thinking Ian’s idea was ridiculous, and that showed in his mumbling reply.
“A narcotic sniffing dog?”
“There isn’t one in this world? Well, think whatever you think it is.”
Riley answered as he shrugged.
He was innocent, so there wasn’t anything that was poking his conscience.
Riley was skilled in swordsmanship because he had been swinging it until he got sick of it when he was in his past life.
As for the mana, it was possible because Riley still remembered the blessing he received from his last life. With it, just by breathing, he could reach new heights faster than others using dedicated training methods.
“Still, I’m against this. Instead of having just Nainiae to accompany you, it would be better…!”
“…Mr. Ian!!”
Ian was going to try to convince Riley again, but his shoulders flinched.
It was because, while he had his guard down, a sharp voice flew by and stabbed him in the ears from the back.