This book is very good despite the many mental cases. Like how this man kills two random people and then just takes the child and is all like “Welp, your nine now.”
Seeeeee that’s what enemies do. The parents, in his view, were being bad in refusing his rule. The child was innocent, and he knew that if he raised her, she’d be completely loyal to him. So he raised and trained her to be the assassin she is currently