“If there’s another incident like this, you’d better be prepared.”

What Sicar had said was intended to scare Raydox, but contrary to his expectations, Raydox was not much frightened.

Raydox knew that no matter how villainous Sicar was, he would not harm children.

Anyway, so we entrusted Kian to him until that day and returned to the duke’s mansion.

And that afternoon, over dinner with Kian who had returned to the duke’s mansion, Sicar gave a piece of advice.

“I have a word for you. From now on, don’t just take hits, fight back. Rip off a hair or throw a punch.”

Even Kian seemed incredulous, pausing before he put a spoonful of soup to his lips.

“A girl? I can’t do that.”

“At your age, you are all just children.”

Kian, as if completely lost his appetite, put his spoon down on the table.

“I can’t reason with you, Sir. I’ve lost my appetite, so I’m going to get up.”

‘The child is better than the adult.’

Sicar wasn’t particularly enraged either, just raising one eyebrow and remarking, ‘The protagonist sure acts the part.’

However, the next day, when Kian came with a bruise on his face, Sicar became utterly furious.

“Why does your face look like that?!”

This time, due to the large bruise on his face, even Kian seemed somewhat nervous, avoiding eye contact.

“I fell while stopping a fight among kids.”

From the look of his face, it didn’t seem like he had been hit. Kian, being quicker than his peers, wouldn’t have gotten a black eye just from being hit by them, so it seemed he had indeed fallen.

I sent Kian to his room, fearing Sicar might give him some ludicrous advice like, ‘Next time, slit their throats with a knife!’

Sicar clenched his fist tightly, as if his family’s reputation had been greatly damaged.

“We need to go to Yukanadar tomorrow.”

“But tomorrow Kian has a spirit lesson with Bica. That’s why we’re not going to Yukanadar. There’s no need to go when there’s no class.”

Kian went to the viscount’s house three days a week. And twice a week, he had spirit lessons here.

While it was a time to be just playing, given his status, he couldn’t be left completely idle, so the schedule reflected some of the original work’s situation.

“Also, Grandma is coming tomorrow.”

“Grandma can’t come tomorrow.”

“Why?”

“They say she shows symptoms of dementia when she leaves the temple. So it’s been postponed.”

Sicar spoke flatly, but his face was quite dark. Naturally, he wouldn’t be feeling good about his only blood relative.

“Shall we go then?”

At my question, Sicar looked at me with surprised, puzzled eyes.

“You want to go all the way to the Great Temple where Grandma is?”

“Yes. If Grandma can’t come here, we should go. Grandma must want to see you so much.”

“Really… you think so…?”

“Grandma wanted to come even though her dementia symptoms haven’t completely disappeared. She must want to see you. But as soon as she leaves the temple, her dementia symptoms appear, and she can’t come…”

“Do you really worry that much…?”

“I told you before, of course, I’m worried.”

“In that case, we’ll go see Grandma, as you say. We can deliver the donation to the Great Temple and bring knitting supplies that Grandma likes.”

Sicar looked at me for a while and then lifted his hand over my head. It was a gesture of patting a puppy on the head for being good.

“You make a commendable suggestion.”

Although I was scowling as if to say, ‘Get that hand off me,’ he didn’t seem to read my expression, but quickly withdrew his hand.

“Then, let’s visit Grandma as soon as Gillian’s wedding is over. Attending the wedding is the priority right now.”

‘Ah, right. Gillian’s wedding is coming up.’

“Then, we should invite the children here tomorrow.”

“Huh? Invite the kids here? Why?”

Are you going to say something to the kids?!

“We’re in the process of turning the training room into a playground, as you suggested.”

“Did you ask Sir Jeremy to do it?”

“Jeremy is already here and working on it. He seemed quite happy, saying he needed a lot of money these days.”

So, already, as of yesterday, Jermi had finished various simulation tasks in the training room. Thus, I was grateful that Sicar, who had listened to my words for the children, but on the other hand, I found it suspicious.

Why would he suddenly listen to my words so well? In fact, I was skeptical if he had created an environment like a house of terror to correct the children’s habits and built an amusement park.

“Thank you, Sicar. The children will be really moved. Thanks to you, I think Kian will make a pretty good impression on the children. But can I go and see how it was made?”

“Of course. I need to check if Jermi’s work is finished first.”

As a result of the check, Jermi had finished all the work and already left the workshop. So we headed straight to the training ground.

It was a place I didn’t want to go to because I was scared in the past. According to the novel, that room was a place where Sicar had installed all sorts of scary simulations for training.