"I would like to address the owner of the property.

　The hall of audience. After a series of reports and permissions, as the vassals left one by one, only one remaining mimis cut in with a straight face.

''Hmm?　What?
I've overheard a whore whose husband is a regular customer of yours.
Is this about Ortizia?
Goodbye. I'd appreciate it if you would refrain from doing that.
...why?
It would be unbecoming of your husband to make advances to a single prostitute while he is unmarried. If you insist, you'll have to wait until you arrive in the main room before you...

　Oh, the sermon-like thing started.
　Mimis says it's normal for an aristocrat to say that.
　That's true, but now what to do?

　And that's when I was thinking about how to handle it and how to respond in a way that would moderately lower my stock.

''You're being rude to your master!''

　Beside me, Midea shouted at Mimis from the corner of the room.
　Midea, who has been standing guard in the corner of the room throughout her duties, is approaching Mimis with a furious expression.

"What are you doing--
'You're Master's man!　You think it's okay to say that to your master?
I'm speaking for the good of the master of the house.
Again!

　Midea gets even more pissed off, almost upset that I feel insulted.
　As expected, this is not good.

'Midea,'
"Master?
Get away from it.
But!
Mimis. Now back off, you've made your point.
... haha.

　Mimis bows and walks out of the audience chamber.
　Midea, who already has her hand on her longsword, wanders and trembles with her hand on it.

　Anger, with no place to go, came towards us.

''Master!　I'm asking for permission now!　I'm going to tear him apart.
You don't have to do that.
But!
Hey Midea...

　Call his name and look straight into his eyes.
　That gives you a "pause" and you think about how to appease them while you aim to calm your anger.

　No, appeasing is one thing, but there's another problem.

　That she calls me her mentor.
　Last time I heard later, I mentored Midea when I was drunk.
　It was a serious one that I didn't save because it was teaching when I was drunk, and Midea said, "I'm stepping into a new realm of swordsmanship! He was so impressed that he called me his master even more.

　So there's one thing that's bad.
　Midea is talented, definitely more talented than Grandpa Sword Saint.
　She called me her master and she became strong and famous.

　At the same time, I'll be famous too, and the obvious idea of 'that Midea's master, so she must be even more amazing' will spread to the world.
　There's no stopping it, or rather, Midea will realize that one day.

　The principle of action is the same when you get angry at Mimis now and realize that you will become famous in the future and your master's name will rise.
　That has to be stopped now.

　I thought about it for a bit and came up with a scenario.

　It is only 0.1 seconds between now and then.

"...don't you know what they say about a good hawk hiding its claws?
'What?　And I know, of course.
''That also means that the more you hide your claws, the more capable you are.
I see!

　No, not as much as it would be.
　The second half of the story was pretty appropriately mangled, but Midea still believed it was my word.

　I don't want to be too chorro but I'm going to use it for now.

'I'm thinking of hiding my claws too.
What is the meaning of this, Master?
You don't call yourself my, "Disciple of Hermes" for external purposes.
'What?　Oh no!
'You know how sometimes you hide the names of schools externally and use pseudonyms?
'Oh, I have. My grandfather said he used to wield a sword under a different name when he was young.

　Your grandfather did it too, thank God for that.

'Yeah, same thing. I'm going to come up with a pseudonym. Well......

　I'll give it some thought.
　We need a name for it.

　If it's too unrelated, Midea won't agree, and if it's too close, she'll get to me.
　Something moderately related to me, but generic.

　I suddenly remembered the Cave of Trials.

　I pulled out a seven-star gold coin.
　I brought a seven-star one.
　Not a one star, but a seven-star one, the easiest one, in the form of a seven-star, and that's about as good as it gets, and I couldn't get it to come.

　I show it to Midea.

"This is the master's proof of ownership. I'm the only one on earth who has it.
Yeah.
See, there are seven stars back there. So that's Nana Nanas.
'Nanas I understand, Master!　From now on, when I say my name, I will call myself Nanas's apprentice.
Yeah, do that.
"Nanas the name of my master's sword.

　The name rolls off the tongue and makes his eyes sparkle.
　And then Midea was persuaded to do something quite cholo-ish.
　Here we go.

　But what the hell.
　It's a bit embarrassing, more like a pen name than a pseudonym.

　　　　　☆

　A few days later.
　After days of nothing in particular happening, I was slacking off and relaxing in the mansion today.

''Speaking of which...''
What's up, Hermes?

　Beside me as I slumped, my sister, who was proudly grooming her hair, responded to a murmur.

'I haven't seen you around Midea lately,'
Oh, you don't know?
'What?　What?
He's been doing a lot of dojo-killing here and there lately.
Dojo break?

　What's that?
　No, wait, I have a fiercely bad feeling about this.

'At first I didn't understand it either. She said, 'I'm going to make the Nanas name roar'. What is Nanas?　And.
Whew!

　Nanas's name will be ..........

'I've come to understand lately. It seems that every time I do a dojo-breaker, I'm going around mentioning that my master is a person named Nanas. And because of that, the name Nanas seems to be spreading throughout Pindos and even the neighboring towns.
Yeah!
''Nanas, the granddaughter of a Sword Saint disciple, what if she is a user beyond the Sword Saint?　That's what people are saying.
'Too much Mideaaaaaaaaaa!

　I didn't know that was going to happen.

'It seems to have grown from there, and recently they've produced a Nanas vs. Swordsman oration and a play. Good for you, celebrity.
Oof....

　My sister, who knows Midea well, seems to have guessed that Nanas = me.

　I can't believe this is what happens to the pen name I lightly gave her.
　When Midea comes back, she has to stop calling me Master.

　As long as we stop that, it shouldn't be a problem because Nanas won't be connected to me no matter how famous he becomes.

'Oh yeah.'
Well, is there anything else, sister?
Not yet, but there is one generalization.
?

　Generalities?

"Smart people and capable people tend to use pseudonyms that they associate with certain things. People know that, so they want to guess from the names.
....
If your identity is exposed in that way, you'll get more accolades than usual and your fame will rise to the level of eels.
Noooooooo!

　Oh my God.
　At least it should have been a completely unrelated name!