Bab 698: Mangled

"The Fool..." Eiro repeated in a muttered voice. He didn't expect this. Sure, he thought that Merlin was going to appear here somewhere; the Devil was the one that had spurred him on in the first place, and letting go of a powerful arcane mage like him would be beyond idiotic. But this? How was Eiro ever supposed to expect that, "That guy's a lot better than I thought, keeping a whole other Royal under his wing..."