Glunn was a man rendered helpless in a child’s body due to a curse. Since being cursed, he had been subjected to constant assassination attempts. Everything around him seemed suspicious to him. Glunn looked at Ennid with a serious expression.

‘Is it a honey trap this time?’

That couldn't be true. How would an 8-year-old child fall into a honey trap? But Glunn was still suspicious.

His family was in a unique position, and as a result, from the moment he was born, he was constantly threatened with his life. Growing up in such an environment, he was a terminal patient of suspicious disease.

But his suspicions were not entirely unfounded. An alchemist who suddenly appeared on a deserted country road. A hero who single-handedly defeated four slave traders and saved people. It seemed too contrived to be true. That's what Glunn thought.

The alchemist was a handsome man who seemed to have been modeled after Glunn's ideal type. At this point, he began to wonder if the trap had been set to make him look like a fool.

“Did you say your name was Ennid?”

“Um... well...”

“As you say, when this man recovers, we will leave for the village. Please wait.”

Glunn imagined Ennid and the person behind him—of course, there was really no one behind him, but he imagined someone behind him anyway—and decided to go along with Ennid's plan.

‘Even if I drive him out now, there will just be just a new replacement again, right?’

In that case, it might be better to keep someone who seemed naive by his side. He chose that option because Ennid's movements were not those of a trained assassin.

He was probably an ordinary person who had been hired as a guard for a small fee, like the middle-aged man. There is no need to kill such a person without reason.

He was once called the bloodthirsty duke, but he wasn't the kind of person who killed people without reason, as the rumors suggested.

“What are you going to do about them?”

Glunn looked at the slave lying on the floor and asked.

“I'll report it to the guards when we arrive at the village.”

“They will run away if he wakes up before then.”

“Don't worry about that. Unless you give them the antidote I made, they'll sleep forever.”

“Sleep forever?”