Dragon and knight Ji gl

There is no obvious difference between this house and the houses where the surrounding villains live. It is located in the residential area of ​​ordinary people in Kyoto, but there are many people around it, which shows the difference here.

In the past two days, dignitaries and royal family members have been visiting here in an endless stream. Some people even brought rare dried worms pickled by famous chefs to visit. However, these gifts were rejected together with their owners. outside the gate.

It is said that the girl who lived in this room became famous during a wild hunt not long ago. She caught more than ten adult males at one time.What is even more admirable is that in the process of her beheading the prey, the scene is very bloody, and there are often scenes of blood gushing out from the neat knife edge like a fountain, but she has no blood on her body. A trace of blood.

There are also rumors that during the subsequent wild hunting, this girl was seriously injured by stray arrows. After returning from the hunting ground, she fell into a coma, and she probably died soon.

The rumors outside the house were half true and half false, and the people inside would never know.Lev didn't even care about these things at the moment, she was trying to prevent Natia Vida from touching her neckline hand with weak eyes and words: "Natya Vida, are you really not? Help me. I can do these things myself, no need to trouble you."

Natia Vida looked at Leif expectantly: "But Miss Knight, your performance now seems to be inviting me to help you."

Leff subconsciously looked in the direction of the doors and windows. When she found that the door was closed and the curtains were tightly drawn, she felt a little strange.

"Miss Knight, don't you? Don't be brave anymore. If you need it, just say it." Natia Vida's hand touched the tie on Leif's neckline, and with a light twist of two fingers, the tie was snapped Untied, "Don't worry, I won't? I'll talk about it."

"Cuckoo".

Leif's stomach growled twice.

Natia Vida's actions? Pausing for a moment, she lowered her head to look at Leif's stomach.

When Lev woke up, her mouth was bitter, and she didn't have the slightest desire to eat, so she didn't notice her hunger.It was only at this time that she realized that she hadn't eaten anything since yesterday afternoon when she passed out under the siege of the archers.

Natia Vida's gaze slowly moved up, and then touched Leif's face with some regret.

Leif said, "I'm hungry."

I don't know? Why did I suddenly breathe a sigh of relief.

"I almost forgot." Natia Vida inserted two of her hands under Leif's ribs, causing the latter to sit up against the back of the bed.Then he got up, brought a bowl of chicken soup with pine nuts and forests from the table, and fed Lev one bite at a time with a small spoon.

The nut soup is made of pine nut powder and chicken mash. It is sweet and soft, and it melts in the mouth almost without chewing.With the disappearance of hunger, Leif has some "vigorousness", but when trying to wipe some of the food from the corner of his mouth, he can't move his arm.

Natia Vida put down the bowl, and put her face in Leif's.

Lev could feel the sweet leftovers on her lips being licked away: "You... what are you doing..."

Natia Vida looked like she just did a very ordinary thing, and looked at Leif with some puzzlement, "Miss Knight, didn't you ask me to do it for you just now?" Do you want to clean up after dinner? Then next..." Natia Vida looked at Leif's neckline, "Miss Knight must really want me to continue..."

"I can swear to the temple, I definitely don't mean that!" Under Natiawi's gaze, the villain knight who couldn't move could only feel itchy like hair growing all over his body, especially On the back, what's even more exasperating is that she couldn't scratch at all, "By the way, Natia Vida... who was the one who told you to go out just now? Is it? He? I suddenly encountered an archer about something?..."

"Hey, is it okay to change the subject so bluntly? Miss Knight." Natia Vida stretched out her hand, put it on Leif's cheek, pinched the bulging cheek flesh, and then replied, "Come from the court." The person here is the young man who invited us to participate in the wild hunting. He came to report the number of prey that day to Miss Knight."

"Then he didn't explain the danger I encountered afterwards?" How about Leif? It's easy to suppress the itch on his back with willpower, but Natia Vida put her troubled hands on her again On his face, pinching his ears and nose, he seemed to regard her as a non-moving toy.

She pretended to be calm and said, "So many people shot me with arrows, I almost died. I want to know? Is that place? It's a place where small humans deal with large beasts."

"The man's statement is almost the same as your guess. The place where you were in danger was indeed a place to deal with large beasts that accidentally invaded, but at the same time, that place was also used to deal with uninvited guests—that is, humans— place." Natia Vida's hand gradually moved down, from the cheek to the jawbone, and then to the neck, along the unbuttoned collar.

With his fingertips, he could clearly feel that tiny goosebumps began to appear on the skin of the villain knight.

Leif said, "Come on, please...please stop..."

"I just wanted to change your clothes. I didn't expect Miss Knight to blush." ​​Even though her thoughts and actions at the moment were not serious, Natia Vida's expression and tone were It's quite serious, "——those archers you've seen are dead soldiers trained since childhood to protect the periphery of the Collier Kingdom from being intruded upon.

"You ran over there when I didn't realize it. I couldn't understand it at first, but just now? The attendant? He gave an explanation. There is a tree growing in Clover Forest A special kind of moss, this kind of moss spreads all over the soil, tree roots and rock surfaces in the forest. There is a special substance in this moss, which will produce psychedelic drugs under the hot sun, which is not good for the spirit. And people who are physically and mentally exhausted are easy to have an effect. But for the creatures who were born and raised in this forest, because they have dealt with the substance in this moss many times, so they won't affected.

"The little people use this kind of moss and some ingenious designs to lure dangerous outsiders into traps. In this forest, there are many similar traps. Not only archers, but also All kinds of traps that are easy to be triggered? Because your size is similar to that of a villain, those? organs? and traps have no effect on you. But those? Aren't you a villain. As long as they see living things appear within range-if these? Living things have not been strangled by the mechanism-then they will kill them with their own hands.

"It's extremely rare for little people to receive guests from outside, so that's why they forgot to tell you about the existence of these things. That place is so far away from our wild hunting area, I really want to know, what kind of thing attracted you To that place?"

"It's a ferocious forest chicken." Leif suddenly realized, "Now I finally understand why it suddenly disappeared out of thin air. See, it turned out to be just an illusion..."

"'A vicious forest chicken'... I thought you saw a beautiful girl in distress." Natia Vida stopped for a while, hooked her fingers around the lace, and pulled one shoulder Clothes on and pulled off.

Leff feels that as a wounded person, there is nothing wrong with asking a companion of the same gender to help her change clothes, take a shower, or do any similar things.She interpreted her a little bit of embarrassment as, first, embarrassment to trouble others, and second, discomfort of exposing her body to others.

She also knew that even if Natia Vida saw or touched something, she didn't need to care about it.Because after coming back yesterday, her clothes must have been changed, and the sweat on her body has also been cleaned up, so she doesn't feel refreshed now.There was no one else in the room, and all of this must have been done by Natia Vida.So before she can speak and show resistance, Natia Vida should have seen and touched Natia Vida who should be seen and touched, not to mention that Lev actually doesn't care about these things.

But what made her feel extremely uncomfortable was...Natya Vida's jiggling movements, and her attitude of trying to tease her while she couldn't move.

"..." Leif swallowed his anger, "Can you be faster?"

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An attendant who came to visit Leif at the king's order? He has been away for a while.

After getting the news from Natia Vida, the attendant rode to the direction of the palace very quickly, and went straight to the king's place as soon as he entered the palace.

The villain king sat on the throne without saying a word.

Prince Ryan was in the same room with his father. At this moment, his harmless face was full of sinisterness because it was too round, and he was pacing in front of the palace with his hands behind his back: "That man What a fate, it's like a monster. Even the best bidder of the clan can't shoot her, I can swear that? It's really strange that she was able to escape unscathed. We just hope that she was fatally wounded somewhere we couldn't see? After this fall, she will never? Waking up and causing trouble..."

The attendant heard Prince Ryan's voice, and the humble expression on his face became even more serious. He lowered his head and came in from outside the house.

The king twitched the short beard on his lips, and looked at the attendant majesticly: "What news have you got?"

"Fortunately, this warrior girl was not seriously injured, she just fell into a coma due to fright." The attendant said, "She has woken up now, and may recover soon .”

"Already woke up." Prince Ryan picked up the collar of the attendant, "Are you sure she really woke up?"

"Yes... yes, prince." In front of the plump Prince Ryan, the thin attendant? Like a dried worm.The attendant originally thought that what he came back to report was good news, but now it seems that what Prince Ryan wants more is obviously the opposite news, "Although I didn't see her standing in front of me with my own eyes, I have never seen her standing in front of me. ?The girl who took care of her got the real news that she has woken up now. "

Prince Ryan let go of the attendant's hand and scratched his hair irritably.

After the attendant stood firm, he looked at the king. The king didn't have any strong emotions on his face, but there was a bit of worry: "According to the agreement, since she has woken up, what she said I have to agree to any absurd request from you? That's fine."

"The woman's companion is not a worry. If only she died this time, then my father won't have to worry about it anymore." Prince Ryan said, "I can rest assured. It's such a pity."

The attendant suddenly understood that the king and prince, who had always been respected, wanted to renege on their debts this time.

The king once promised to all the citizens that as long as Prince Ryan can be brought back safely, he can grant any wish of that person in return.Although he also felt that the girl wanted to thank the queen-to-be as a gift, such a request was quite rude, but did the king and the prince want to kill her just for this reason?

It was dark, the palace doors were wide open, and the autumn air was cool.

The king continued to twiddle the short beard on his lips, and suddenly looked outside the door, "This...what's going on here?"

The attendant turned to where the king was looking, which was the center of Cliff Forest, where the three holy piles were.From there a very bright faint blue light was emitted.

The attendants, the king, and Prince Ryan knelt down one after another, with expressions of humility and fear on their faces.

"The light came when it shouldn't," said the king, "perhaps because we have done something against God's will."

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The room assigned to the villain knight has been lit with lights, but there are flames the size of a grasshopper's eye, making the room look a little dark.

Natia Vida's hand rested on her shoulder, and slowly pulled down one side of the clothes a little bit, and then slowly down a little bit: "Miss Knight, why are you so impatient?" He got down and leaned into Leif's ear, "Since Miss Knight wants to go faster, then go faster?"

Leif felt a hairy sensation from his tailbone.

Originally, her body seemed to be bound by countless thin invisible ropes, and she couldn't move anywhere? She tried her best, but she didn't expect that when she suddenly exerted force, these thin chains fell apart like a knife in the middle.A sliver of strength emerged from her originally weak body for no reason, and she stretched out her hand suddenly, pushing Natia Vida's head resting on her chest away, and said sonorously: "I have already It's alright, so changing, showering and all that sort of thing, I can do it myself now...you really don't need to help me anymore."

Looking at Leif's still pale face, Natia Vida was a bit stunned: "This is such a pity." Seemingly hearing something, she turned around and looked somewhere under the curtain.

"I've been lying on the bed and didn't move much. I shouldn't be today? I need to change my clothes." Leif breathed out vigorously, fastened the tie around her neckline again, and then supported the protruding part of the bed down to the ground.

While putting on his shoes facing the wall facing the window, Leff found a thin blue glowing thin line suddenly appeared on the wall, no? He could not help but reach out to touch the thin line, just After she put her hand on the wall, the thin line was transferred from the wall to her hand—this was obviously a light.

Doesn't Leif know about this blue light? It feels familiar.

So the villain knight with no blood on his face turned around by the bed, looked at the window, and saw a gap in the middle of the two thick curtains, from which the blue light entered.

Between the window and the wall, there was also a path of pale blue light, with dust swirling and flying in the middle.

Natia Vida's gaze also gradually rose, and she also saw the blue light path, and looked at Leif suspiciously: "Miss Knight, what's going on?"

Leff leaned on the wall, walked over a few steps, and then opened the curtains: "Where will the light source... be..."

She looked towards the source of the blue light along the gaps between the houses in the Lilliputian residential area neatly arranged like a chessboard, until she stopped at a corner.She looked to the high places in the distance again, and saw that those faint blue lights cast a circle on the dome of the Lilliputian Kingdom that gradually became brighter and darker from the middle to the surrounding.

That beam of faint blue light of suspicious origin passed through the layer-by-layer reflection of the dome, the ground, and the walls of the Lilliputian Kingdom, covering everything she could see. The difference was only a little bit in brightness. There are differences.

It was clearly a night, but it was terribly bright.

"Miss Knight, are you okay?" Natia Vida walked to Leif's side, and looked worriedly at the latter's face under the faint blue light.

Leff was staring up at the dome of the Lilliputian in a daze, and when he heard Natia Vida's voice, he realized that he was not leaning on anything, and he could stand up straight without any discomfort. , and said: "My strength has recovered more than half."

Her strength disappeared inexplicably, and just when she thought she would have to lie on the bed for ten or a half months, it recovered inexplicably.Although regaining strength is a good thing, if she can't find the reason for all these changes, it will still be quite difficult for her to accept. She will always worry that her strength will suddenly disappear again at some point—and at that time Most likely that's when she goes head-to-head with the enemy.

"Most of it has recovered..." Natia Vida chewed these words in doubt, and looked around the house suspiciously, "Perhaps you are really right, there is really some kind of I don't know..."

"Natya Vida, do you know? Do you know what that is?" Lev didn't hear the second half of Natia Vida's words, and now she is looking forward to the latter giving her an answer.

After all, everything Leif knows about Lilliputia—except for what she saw and heard with her own eyes in the short time after she arrived in Lilliputia—is from Natia Vida Learned by mouth?She almost subconsciously thought that Natia Vida must know all the secrets of Lilliputian, and could immediately answer all the mysterious things she didn't understand.

"Miss Knight, you imagine me to be too knowledgeable. If I knew, why would I still ask you what it is just now? Now, I can only provide you with what I know. I know the information—look, the light source is directly below that place." Natia Vida pointed to the point where the blue light gathered the brightest in the center of the Lilliputian dome.

"And the location of the light source, Miss Knight, do you remember? Remember what I said? It is the place where the gold mine in the center of Clover Forest is located. But what is that light? I am really Not sure."

"I do remember that you mentioned the gold mine. No...but now, it seems that we don't know enough about Lilliputian." ? Seeing the latter staring at the blue light on the dome, the excitement on his face was obvious, "At this time, do you think you want to mine gold mines?"

"Who wouldn't? Like gold?" Natia Vida licked her lips, her eyes fixed on somewhere in the distance, "I almost forgot that there is so much gold hidden in Lilliputian. Miss Knight, you No? Do you think this blue light is actually inviting us to explore there?"

"Something's weird. I can't think of anything? That's going to glow this color so intensely. Something? Burning? Doesn't look like that. I think the most likely? I'm afraid, it's The blue light comes from a powerful magical beast. One of my past experiences may be used as a reference..." Leif recalled the dazzling red fire skylark shadow in the last mission, thinking that the witch beside him did not participate That battle was briefly explained.

"So let's stop thinking about gold for the time being. So many people used to come chasing gold deep in the forest, but lost their lives in the end. Now it seems that this is not the case. Not only is it the result of the strong resistance of villains, another force is also exerting great influence. I now have an ominous premonition that these blue lights may not indicate benefits, but variables. We We need to act quickly."

"But it took so much effort this time, even Miss Knight, you almost risked your life. If you can't get the benefits that match the risks, then it's not worth the loss. I think Jin The location of the mine is worth exploring." Natia Vida said, "The villains are too simple, these villains probably don't know that they own a treasure house, or even know What's the use of it? What's the gold for? All right. It's such a pity."

"However, even you can't give any explanation for the source of that blue light, or don't you have to take risks for nothing?" Leif said, "We must find a way to get Princess Millie immediately I was vaguely aware of Lilliputian's hostility towards us. If the arrow formation I encountered was just an accident, such an explanation would not convince me. Now Lilliputian It shows a weird place, this place is really not suitable to stay any longer—look, what are those people doing?"

Natia Vida was about to refute, when she shifted her gaze a little, she saw villains coming out of "her" house one by one.

The residents of Lilliputian are like most human beings on this continent, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.When the blue light appeared, it had been dark for a while, and most people had already fallen into a deep sleep, and it took a while before they were woken up by those who were awake.

Both Leif and Natia Vida discovered this blue light earlier than these people.

And after these villain residents woke up, they immediately knelt down towards the source of the blue light, prostrated themselves on the ground and worshiped.

Lev opened the door and walked towards the little man wearing a blue cone hat who was kneeling closest to her, then squatted down and asked her: "Do you know what is going on with this blue light?" ?”

Middle-aged women have never heard this kind of question since they were born.The people of Lilliputian have known how to react to the blue light since they can remember. Naturally, someone would ask her similar questions. The little girl who moved here immediately tugged on Lai Fu's sleeves, and whispered: "Hurry up? Kneel down, no? Look up, no? Or you will be punished..."

Seeing Leif not moving in a daze, he urged him several times, "Hurry up? Kneel down, hurry up? Kneel down."

It seems the woman doesn't want to answer her question.

No? Wanting to cause too much commotion, Leif had to kneel obediently.

Leif turned her head and saw Natia Vida kneeling beside her.

"Judging from the reactions of these young people, this blue light is probably not the first time it has appeared. You really shouldn't ask her that." Natia Vida approached Laif and whispered.She quickly said to a little boy next to her, "Kid, do you know what this blue light is? ... No? Tell me, how often does the blue light appear?"

Leif looked at Natia Vida.

"Of course I know." Under the green cone hat was a chubby face. The boy found it quite novel that he could know something that adults don't know. He glanced at him. She glanced at the mother in the distance, lowered her voice, and slowly moved towards Natia Vida a little bit, with an uncontrollable smug look on her face, "The blue light comes from the Holy Pile, it will appear every month Once, for three days each time. You don't even know that?"

"Do we need to kneel like this all the time for the past three days?" Leif asked.

"Of course not. No need." The little boy gave Leff a white look, and then stood up from the ground. "If this is the case, who will cook and fetch water? We'll starve to death one by one."

"You just got up like this?" Leff was quite puzzled.

The little boy patted the dust on his knees, but did not speak to Leif.

Gradually, there was the sound of groaning and getting up, Leif and Natia Vida glanced at each other, and followed suit.

"In the past three days, I can only eat one meal a day until the blue light disappears. And I can't make excessively exaggerated expressions, I can't laugh out loud, I can't cry Come on, if you don't..." The boy pointed at the dome of the Lilliputian, imitating the tone used by adults to frighten him, "If you don't, 'it' will be very angry. 'It' will be in the middle of the night Drag you away, and make soup to drink."

"Can you tell me what 'it' you're talking about?" Leif asked.

The boy's mother went to her house and found that her son was not with her.When I searched with my eyes, I found that the son was standing with the little girl with mixed reputations - and the mother obviously remembered Leif's bad reputation - so she yelled at the little boy: "You still not? Hurry up and go back!"

The little boy responded, and before answering Leif's question, he half-runned and half-hopped towards his mother, with a smile on his face.Leif wanted to chase after him for an answer, but after the little boy with a smiling face approached his mother, the woman grabbed his ears and dragged him back into the house in a few steps.

Before entering the door, the boy's mother gave Leff a hard look. The meaning in her eyes was quite obvious, and she was warning her not to bring her son into harm's way.

Leif had to touch his nose and back a few steps, quite embarrassed.

Making yourself notorious is indeed a way to make your opponent less vigilant, but the side effects of using this method are not small.

She realized that Natia Vida was not beside her, and it took a while before she realized that Natia Vida was talking among the crowd.The people around didn't feel dissatisfied with Natia Vida like they did towards her. Instead, they felt a little sympathetic and pitiful. Sympathy is even more pathetic.

The feelings in Leif's heart suddenly became complicated.She was thinking about why she had to cooperate so well with Natia Vida's act of destroying her image.

Natia Vida withdrew from the crowd and walked to Leif, and the two returned to the house.

"According to the situation I have now, I can confirm two points." Leif said.

Natia Vida closed the door behind Leif.

"First, in the 'Holy Ruins', which is where the gold mine is located, there is indeed such a thing? These? Lights are emitted from 'It'. It is very likely that it is a? A fierce beast, and no? Do you know why, the residents of the Lilliputian have faith in that? Fierce beast. Perhaps it is because this? Food and? Habitat, one side provides protection in such an agreement.

"When Princess Daxi came to visit, you reminded her of the disadvantages of the little humans when they fought against humans. At that time, she also set her sights in that direction, and she seemed to rely on it. So I deduce that the monster in the Holy Ruins It is the asylum of the Lilliputian. The second point, the blue light we saw today is actually just a normal phenomenon of the Lilliputian. Because there will be three days every month..." Leif said here Shi Shi frowned, "But, he didn't tell me, did he? Only? There will be blue light in these three days."

"The blue light appears at this time, can it be called 'normal'." Natia Vida closed the curtains, "According to the information I have received, the arrival of the blue light this time is ten days earlier than last month .”

"Ten days earlier." Leif repeated.

"Miss Knight, you are basically correct. Isn't there not only gold in the holy ruins, but also the protector of the little people? It may indeed be a fierce beast, but in the legend of the Lilliputian, it It's a god. But I don't know much about the specific information about that god. It's like a temple exists in our people's beliefs, except for priests, knights and some nobles In addition, ordinary people don't know the origin and history of the temple, and the little people I met don't know what the 'god' is."

Natia Vida said, "Before I can get more information, one point seems to be the most noteworthy. Almost all the villains know that the villains have some kind of agreement with that god. And if you violate these? Agreements, you will be punished. And for this, every villain believes in it. "

Leif frowned: "The agreement with the fierce beast...is it similar to the agreement of paying tribute to ten? A few children every month as food, otherwise punishment will be imposed?"

"No, 'that thing?' seems quite kind. These? Agreements are not so much exchanges between the two, but rather just some? behavioral norms for the residents of the Lilliputian State. For example, Participate in wild hunting at least once every ten days, no matter how high or low the status is, this is one of the promises." Natia Vida said, "The upper class of the Lilliputian country does not have much luxury enjoyment, and To work together with the subjects, as well as the simple folk customs here, the praise of hard work, and the hatred of lazy people are also the impact of these agreements."

"Looking at it this way, this thing really looks like a god." Leif said.

"You should still remember how much Lilliputian rejected outsiders at the beginning. This is also the regulation in the agreement: don't be curious about the outside world, don't have contact with humans, and don't stay away from your homeland." Natiavi Da said, "If the regulations are violated, the harbinger of the punishment is the abnormality of the blue light..."

Leif and Natia Vida looked at each other and said, "Then maybe, the little people will soon have considerable doubts about our identities—we can't delay any longer? Well, we must make preparations early."

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The next morning, I opened the curtains. Although it was daytime, the blue light outside the window still did not reduce its power.

The business of the entire Lilliputian has almost come to a standstill, and it is difficult to hear people's voices on the street. Almost everyone stays behind closed doors, and even the young children don't come out to play anymore.

The surrounding atmosphere suddenly became quite depressing.

For Leif and Natia Vida, the biggest good news is that the guards in the palace have also been relaxed, and the number of guards on duty has been reduced by one-third.Even the guards on duty, because they have to control their diet, they don't seem to have much combat effectiveness.

Leif and Natia Vida decided to go to the palace to meet Princess Millie on the night of the third day when the Blu-ray appeared.They will take Princess Millie away from the palace in the worst possible situation for their opponents, and then leave here immediately.Although Natia Vida really wanted to explore the location of the gold mine, but under Leif's strong request, she reluctantly compromised.

They spent the night confirming where Princess Millie lived.Then I contacted Princess Daxi to find out how to leave the Lilliputian Kingdom——they didn’t reveal all their plans and details, but only said that they wanted to escape from the Lilliputian Kingdom and asked Princess Daxi for help. .After all, the way three people leave, isn't it? It will be much more difficult than the way two people leave.

According to the plan, on the night of the third day when the blue light appeared, Leif would sneak into the palace where Princess Millie lived, steal her out of it, and then walk out of the villain's passage at night.The three will ride horses beyond the borders of the Lilliputian, and Natia Vida will join Princess Millie in drinking a potion that restores her human form—unfortunately, because Leif Because the potion he drank was too powerful, he might not be able to recover for a while, but it didn't matter.

After leaving the forest, the three will return to the Kingdom of Ignaz, the homeland of Princess Millie.

Under normal circumstances, the blue light will gradually increase over time, reaching the peak at a certain point in the second day, and then the light will gradually decrease, but what people did not expect is that the blue light still has not weakened at all on the third day signs.

Rumors gradually spread around, saying that it was precisely because the subjects did not follow the instructions of their ancestors and accepted suspicious outsiders, the holy pile will be punished.

Leif no longer received friendly invitations from the king, and people around her no longer looked at her with tentative kindness, but hatred and fear.

So on the night of the third day, when Leff wanted to go out, he saw several sneaky people wandering around the house.It is likely to be someone sent by the palace.

Leif isn't there yet. If he wants to cause a confrontation, he can only pretend to be weak.