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The very next day, with Irexana’s full support, Leon’s party had finished their preparations and were moving swiftly. They didn’t even need to push at full speed; simply running fast was enough. Crossing the empty stretch between Jugend’s border and the Clyde Empire wouldn’t take even half a day.
“Um, Mr. Hero?” Karen called.
“Yeah?”
When Leon turned at her voice, he found her wearing a hesitant expression.
She asked cautiously, “Was that… really the right choice? Just brushing Cedric off like that…”
When Leon received Cedric’s request to travel with them, relayed through Irexana just last night, he had decided to refuse on the spot. No matter how he tried to see it, Cedric’s intentions felt impure.
So, Leon had not only rejected the request but also asked Irexana to mislead him, pointing him in the opposite direction of their true destination. Cedric would never imagine that Irexana, the Cardinal and Grand Meister himself, might feed him an outright lie.
“It’s fine. What you’re worried about won’t happen.”
Reassuring Karen, Leon recalled the brief clash of blades he’d had with Cedric.
Truly, he was worthy of the name “Sword Demon”....
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