"Perhaps. But I enjoyed the day in the end. It was a nice and much needed break, and I continue to be astounded that none of my students appeared to ruin it."
The words left Lord El-Melloi II's mouth a little too quickly, and they sent him into a stunned silence. Everything was a reminder that he didn't know their status beyond Chaldea's walls, and that was still a source of anger. Anger that had just abated moments before.
He was angry. But it was harder to direct it at Roman now, at least, harder to do it and not come off as the horrible nineteen year old brat he hated. He wouldn't inflict that on anyone.
He managed to nod in confirmation to Roman's really?, because that was something to focus on. Lord El-Melloi shifted in his seat, eyes on Roman and the small laurel tree just behind him. There. Focus.
"It isn't a matter of think," he corrected with what was for him a normal degree of frankness. "You've already demonstrated it. There are also trite quotations about those who are best suited for power usually shy away from it, but as I said, they're trite. So I'll say this instead: there is nothing I loathe more than my status in Clock Tower because it invites unwanted and undesired attention. I would never compare myself to poultry," just slaughter it to summon Alexander the Great, "But I do understand the impulse."
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The words left Lord El-Melloi II's mouth a little too quickly, and they sent him into a stunned silence. Everything was a reminder that he didn't know their status beyond Chaldea's walls, and that was still a source of anger. Anger that had just abated moments before.
He was angry. But it was harder to direct it at Roman now, at least, harder to do it and not come off as the horrible nineteen year old brat he hated. He wouldn't inflict that on anyone.
He managed to nod in confirmation to Roman's really?, because that was something to focus on. Lord El-Melloi shifted in his seat, eyes on Roman and the small laurel tree just behind him. There. Focus.
"It isn't a matter of think," he corrected with what was for him a normal degree of frankness. "You've already demonstrated it. There are also trite quotations about those who are best suited for power usually shy away from it, but as I said, they're trite. So I'll say this instead: there is nothing I loathe more than my status in Clock Tower because it invites unwanted and undesired attention. I would never compare myself to poultry," just slaughter it to summon Alexander the Great, "But I do understand the impulse."