Hearing the clear concern on the elven princess' voice as she asks him the question, the emperor-like young man starts thinking about the short period of time he had been to the capital, how his initial plan of laying low until he acquire strength enough to fend for himself was completely foiled, resulting to this current situation.
While still thinking in his mind that standing out like this would bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to him, Diluc realizes that there are also merits and benefits for standing out like this, for one, a lot of the missions that the Dragon Herding System is giving him appears to be missions that are more oriented on being high profile, another benefit to that being the fact that he easily managed to pull the attention of possible backing towards him.