Was Jia Xiu at risk of retaliation from the Reinhardt family?
Possibly. If the head of that family was truly out of his mind, then there was the tiniest, faintest possibility.
After all, one could not rule out the possibility of a deranged psychopath emerging from among the nobility.
Other than that, there should have been no other possibility.
If one counted carefully, Jia Xiu was more or less someone with quite an extraordinary background.
Princess Emilia's knight and business partner, Margaret of the Capet family's student, an outstanding soon-to-graduate of Saint Dero and a first-class protected talent of the Caster Association, the chosen of the Holy Light Church's Radiant Knight, and a mysterious Sect Master who was terrifying precisely because he was so mysterious.
Honestly, his status was far more important than that of many great nobles with famous names and ancestral merit ledgers piled thick and high.
Relying on one's ancestors' merits and relying on one's own merits were still rather different.
Therefore, anyone with even a halfway functional brain would not seek revenge for a young master who had defected to the Devil Race at a critical juncture when the Devil Race crisis had yet to be resolved and the stalemate could be shattered at any time.
Besides, Jia Xiu had killed him with reason and evidence.
It was not as though he had started the trouble. The other side had insisted on provoking a conflict, so what could he do?
Since there was no need to worry about retaliation from the family, the other thing to consider was whether Thomas might be revived.
Without a doubt, if only his brain had been pierced through, then revival was entirely possible.
Jia Xiu usually made the most extreme assumptions. Before a plan began, he first assumed the worst