It had happened before and he wouldn't let it happen again.

He remembered the nightmare night when Sumi and Taka had entered his bedroom and seduced him and then, after his single tear of happiness, intended to kill him.

And now, the dark, late night, the moon as bright as that night, the same bed, the same room, and you standing in his bedroom doorway, even though he trusted you enough since you had been living in the castle for months and learning alchemy from him, but he immediately pointed his sword at you as he sat on the bed in the same white sleep shirt. His hands clutched the sheets as the sword hovered in the air, and he spoke defensively with a harshness in his tone, "Why aren't you sleeping in your room?"