Mir found it meaningless to engage in further debate with these aristocrats whose worldview differed so wildly from his. So he directly asked the only question that mattered to him, although he had been assured of that concern several times already.
"That's a neat plan, Mr. Lightfoot. So my family and I will encounter no difficulties for the outcome of this duel, right?"
"Not from anyone surnamed Lightfoot or those associated with it, no," Mr. Cain echoed his previous answer. "However, the same cannot be said for outsiders."
"What do you mean?" Mir's alertness rose.
Cain Lightfoot gestured at the noisy entryways of the arena, where Principal Juno and his colleagues were blocking the curious crowd from getting a glimpse of what was going on here.
