Wait but is the painter friend dead now?? ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

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He is alive

OMG YOU BETTER NOT LIE TO MEE ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ

You'll be surprise, before the massacre of the painters, he went back to his hometown as he heard his mother was sick. When he returned all the new painters came from noble families.