"How--by anticipating it based on likely circumstance...?" Maybe it isn't likely circumstance yet, but when you're faced with intense, volatile power that your own can't match, you have to adapt quickly. He's learned that the hard way too many times.

He opens his mouth again to counter that, because his title was just objective fact and not a wound, wasn't it? So was the way people interpreted the 'Commander' as a beacon, as...

He purses his lips with a frown, thinking better of it. "I see. Nevermind, then. Just be attentive, while we will put all our efforts to the carnival's safety, things can still be missed."

Right, it still never hurts to have another pair of eyes for anything suspicious.