[ Private security... As in... someone's retainer? (He immediately thinks of Hubert who's always shadowing the Adrestian princess, though he and Kurapika couldn't look any more different.) ]

Right, though not just any lord. I'll be serving His Majesty, the King of Faerghus.

[ ...That'll eventually be Dimitri, who's actually on the car with them too. But Sylvain doesn't see a reason to single him out to a stranger. ]

I take it that means you're pretty good at fighting?

[ Kurapika doesn't look like it, with that slim build and those delicate features... But then again, Sylvain's gotten his ass handed to him more times than he can count by classmates he would qualify as pretty and/or petite, so appearances absolutely don't mean a thing. ]