After Maud was confined to the weapon shop, Saul stopped going to Flower Street for his morning training.
Instead, he stayed at the weapon shop all day, constantly supervising Maud's training.
The reason was naturally the rudimentary display of blade flowers Maud had performed that morning.
Saul would never question Sunny's judgment. Therefore, it could only mean that after Maud obtained Dark Raven, he had stepped over the threshold of a swordsman in just one day—and had drawn blood with Dark Raven.
At that moment, Saul saw the precious thing called talent in Maud.
He had talent for both firearms and blades.
This left Saul shocked on the inside. Although he appeared calm on the surface, he was actually panicking like crazy.
Out of selfish motives, he did not want Maud to walk down an irreversible path. Instead, he wanted Maud to pursue the path of a gunslinger.
Thus, he tossed Dark Raven onto the shelves and made it an item for sale.
Fortunately, Sunny still had a conscience and secretly set Dark Raven's price at two million Beli.
That outrageously high price was enough to discourage any potential buyer lacking discernment, so there was no need to worry about Dark Raven being bought by someone else.
From that day onward, Maud could only obediently stay at the weapon shop.
Under Saul's supervision, Maud spent nearly all his time during the day undergoing high-intensity physical training.
The training for his legs in particular had reached an almost insane level.
Whether by coincidence or deliberate design, Maud discovered that this sudden increase in training volume happened to be the maximum his body could endure after reaching one-star physique.
After several days of rotating through various training methods, Maud realized that Saul must have noticed something. That was why he had arranged