The Elven Country (5)

It was around two years after I came to Inelda, to this land that had by then become the country of Shiyo.

As I went through my daily sword practice, Reas, who as usual had been watching me from nearby the whole time, suddenly asked me:

"Why do you go to such lengths, Eisa-sama?"

That was more or less how he put it.

But this question was extremely abstract, making his intent difficult to grasp.

Since he was asking me this now, was he referring to the sword?

Or was there something else about me that had caught his attention?

When I tilted my head and asked him in return, Reas shook his head.

"Everything. Everything Eisa-sama does is utterly mysterious to me."

Those were his words...