The rest of Christmas break passed without too much excitement. Sir Charles and the Castle Guardsmen reported that Gentleman was nowhere to be found, either on the Castle grounds or in the general area around the Castle. That’s what Nomura told me when he showed up after breakfast because he had apparently been helping the Guardsmen out of a sense of guilt. Nomura felt that, as my bodyguard, he had failed to protect me from Gentleman and so wanted to do whatever he could to make up for that.
In fact, that was one of the new security measures put in place while I stayed at Castle Superbia. Nomura stayed outside my door during the night or occasionally spend the night on the balcony. He didn’t seem to mind the lack of sleep. Actually, Nomura never seemed tired, period, now that I thought a
