“If you don't want to answer, that's fine. It's bound to hurt; I asked a pointless question. I'll get some medicine, so wait here.”

Ennid opened the drawer and took out some healing potion. He poured it onto Glunn's finger.

“The bone will heal in about two hours.”

“Two hours…? Is that all it takes for the bone to heal?”

“Yes. It’s a high-grade potion. It’s not sold in stores, only supplied to the temple.”

“I see. It must be a good potion then. Let’s see how effective it is.”

Ah, that tone is so annoying. I want to slap him, Ennid thought, looking at Glunn with an ambiguous expression.

Some people might find it cute if an 8-year-old acts like an adult, but Ennid didn't find it cute at all. Far from being cute, the more they talked, the more he felt a strange sense of alienation.

It was because a 27-year-old adult man was trapped inside the child's body, but of course Ennid didn't know that.

“Kid, that tone of yours...”

Ennid thought the child was imitating the older nobles around him. But Glunn's speech, behavior, and gaze were not childlike at all. How could he explain this strangeness? Ennid opened his mouth to speak, but in the end said nothing.

“Do you live alone in this house?”

“Mm-hmm. I live alone.”

“Can I look around the house?”

“That’s fine, but don’t touch anything carelessly. There are dangerous items here.”

As soon as he got permission, Glunn started walking around the house. He wasn't really looking around the house. Glunn thought of this house as a makeshift trap. He was looking for evidence and trying to figure out what kind of traps were set up.

Of course, there was no such thing. As Glunn was walking around the study, he stopped in front of a picture frame hanging on the wall. Inside the frame was a diploma.

“National Academy...?”

Glunn's eyes widened slightly. The National Academy of the Kingdom of Chelsea. It was rumored to be a place where the academic difficulty was hellish. Ennid's name was engraved in gold on the diploma in the frame.

If Ennid's credentials were genuine, there was nothing unusual about him graduating from the National Academy. However, Glunn looked at the diploma with a skeptical expression.