Part 574: Virion C

Virion? I've been searching for you. It's time for our training session.

Is it that hour already? Well then, prepare your sparring gear and---

Already done. I'm ready of you are.

Ha ha! Of course you are! I always said you were my most dedicated vassal.

Your flattery's wasted on me.

Flattery? Surely you know by now that gallant Virion always speaks from the heart! If I had not been so cruelly robbed of my domains, you would still---

But you DID lose your lands, so there's no point discussing what might have been. This is reality, where we face each other on the training grounds as equals.

Ah, reality. I have come to loathe that place of late. You know that when my lands were stripped, your bonds of vassalage were ended, yes? You have no obligation to me, Cherche. No obligation to train me as you do. You are free to serve whomever you choose.

I am aware of that. But I never served you because of your land holdings.

You didn't? Oh ho ho! Then was it, perchance, for love?

One more comment like that and I'll have Minerva eat you.

*Gulp* My deepest apologies, milady! My lips are hereby sealed!