The moment that he heard those words, the wheels in Eugene’s head quickly began to spin. Why had Lovellian suddenly said something like that? What on earth could have made him so certain about Eugene’s true identity?

There was no way to tell.

Genos of the Knights of the Black Lions had been able to discover Eugene’s true identity because Genos was exceedingly familiar with Hamel’s techniques. Having shown such an understanding and mastery of those techniques that could only have belonged to Hamel himself in front of someone like Genos, it couldn’t be helped that Eugene had revealed his identity.

However, Lovellian was a different case. Unlike Genos, Lovellian wasn’t familiar with Hamel’s techniques. Also, Eugene had always been careful with his mannerisms when he was in front of Lovellian.

No, it wasn’t just Lovellian. With the sole exception of Genos, after having been reincarnated as Eugene Lionheart, he had never once said or done anything that might arouse the suspicion of the people in his vicinity.

[I really don’t feel like that’s the truth…,] Mer muttered to herself inside his cloak, but Eugene didn’t feel the slightest bit of embarrassment from thinking something so blatantly false.

Sienna, who had been wide-eyed in shock, suddenly blinked. Just like Eugene, the cogs in her head were also spinning quickly.

How had Lovellian found out? In fact, that wasn’t the most important thing to Sienna. What was important to her was that it was the Red Tower Master, in particular, who had discovered Eugene’s identity. This was the heir to Theodore Thorne, one of the disciples Sienna had accepted so long ago, the head of the magic school that claimed to be the successors to Sienna’s inheritance, the master of the Red Tower of Magic, and Eugene’s magic teacher.

—A three-hundred-year-old wizard flirting with a young man who is just in his twenties! What would the world think when they saw this?

Anise’s cutting words echoed inside Sienna’s head. Although Sienna had dismissed Anise’s concerns at the time, saying, ‘What of it?’,… in fact, what people said often didn’t reflect what was in their hearts.

Sienna was well aware of the fact that she was an extremely famous and respected wizard. She felt that it was only natural that she had become an object of admiration and emulation for all future generations of wizards.

As such, even if it was just for the sake of preserving the dignity of her title as the Wise Sienna... she had made up her mind to be careful of how she treated Eugene when in front of others.

In particular, Sienna had reminded herself that she needed to take even more care when in front of the Red Tower Master since they had so many layers of relationships...