Conversation with a Sage - 2

"What did you say?!" The sage suddenly raised his voice, even emitting a portion of his aura pressed against Robin, "You think I'll reward those who head my orders and helped me by killing them? Who do you think I am?!"

"Please calm down, Your Highness, please think about it, whoever gathered my personal information and exposed me to your intelligence network is most likely one of those knights who came to my house from the Bradley family. 

Killing a knight or two from another family will not lessen your power and prestige by any means, even Duke Galan himself expressed that he wants to kill them but has no means to identify them... above all of that I'm telling you to do it secretly and not publicly, so your reputation will not be affected."

"... Why?" the sage asked when he noticed that Robin was serious