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Julius:  "As a matter of fact, we knew from early on that Master Cecils was searching for someone."
human
Cecils:  "What?! Did I let my objective slip? Very strange. For once, I thought I chose my words carefully…" The four had returned to the Juukulius manor and now sat in a conference chamber. Two royal knights, two imperial generals, and one very charged atmosphere. That said, there was no bloodlust in the air, of course. The real problem had already been resolved, and the story was drawing to its close. Joshua had been relieved to no end at Cecils’s safe return. All that remained was to explain to Ferris what exactly had happened.
gpt
Julius:  "You needn’t worry, Master Cecils. You never once said anything to give away why you were really here."
human
Cecils:  "Well, that’s a relief. Hmm? Then how’d you know what I was doing?"
gpt
Julius:  "There was nothing in your words that exposed you, true enough, but you dropped clues here and there. Asking Joshua and the serving girls if they had seen any ‘strange people from the empire,’ for example, and sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night… Oh, and I wouldn’t recommend using imperial gold pieces at the marketplace again. That’s the sort of thing people tend to remember."
human
Cecils:  "What?!" Cecils reached into his kimono and produced his coin purse, staring at it in disbelief. The fact that Cecils had used imperial coinage on the first day they’d met in the capital made him profoundly easy to track. The man was hopelessly unsuited to covert activities.