Kain continued to tell himself this in his mind.
As for Princess Fii, her survival lifestyle continued. While making sure the guards didn’t see her, she started to practice sword swings.
(Exercise is bad for you when you’re fasting, you know…! And you hardly have any muscle on you…!)
His stomach had begun to hurt.
Finally, the villa had run out of food…
Princess Fii continued to train on her empty stomach, and when she wasn’t, she would sit still to conserve energy.
(What do I do… What should I do…)
His head was spinning with his master’s orders and Princess Fii’s condition.
If he could just leave these rations somewhere she would notice… No, he could even just go buy her normal food. Just that would be enough to save her.
But disobeying orders for personal feelings would disqualify him as a Grass.
A Grass, was a special kind of soldier.
They were simple soldiers, without pedigree or position, but the information they dealt with were national secrets, or sometimes even beyond that. They were the people who were closest to the King, and needed to work even in such a private environment. There were many times when they knew things that would cause a national scandal.
Because of that, their mindsets had to be different from other retainers.
Any other retainer would advise their King if he erred, and doing so was good.
But the Grass could not.
Questioning the King’s judgement could inevitably plant seeds of rebellion, and such things had already happened many times in history.
And for a Grass to rebel was more dangerous than any other retainer.
Given the natures of their job, it wouldn’t even be difficult to directly assassinate the King, and the danger they posed was immeasurable.
Because of that, Grass were raised to become as faithful to their orders as possible. Making their own decisions was only to be done without the scope of the orders.
If berating and guiding their lord’s foolish actions was the role of the retainers, then to blindly exact their master’s orders was the role of the Grass.
(I am a Grass… I am a Grass… I am a Grass…)
Kain continued to persuade himself in his head.