章 83: ~ 83: Never A Lovely, Placid Place - Part 4 ~

'But there are so many Dixons in many places,' my psyche reasoned. 'It is highly impossible that you have someone here. Plus, you have always lived near the sea.'

"It is her tutor in the arts of fighting," responded the monarch. "Seems like he lived in some mountain. It would be rather difficult to track his whereabouts as we have many of them and they are mostly at the borders of Vitalis."

"A lady learning those arts?" said the head knight. "That is my first time hearing it. Did you learn it for battle or for self-defence, milady?"

"Maybe for both," I answered. "He took me in and trained me. I didn't resist the opportunity."

"To see that the General is not present today as well," said the king with great concern as he wiped his lips on the napkin, which made me glad the attention had diverted from me. "What do you think is keeping him off, Darius?"