"Well, now that you have a clear head, we were hoping you could give us some answers," Ilya said, looking at me with that calm, analytical expression.
They must be thinking I had a clear head because I'd just woken up.
Jokes on them! Haha... hah...
Okay, I should recognize this was actually a predicament. But those familiar faces were tricking my mind, rendering me unable to think of this as the serious situation it was.
"Tch. Look at him. He doesn't even bow before Her Grace," Kael said, clearly annoyed at my casual expression.
"Pfft." A voice came from the adjacent cell.
It was Betty.
Kael's attention immediately shifted to that cell, while the Duchess still casually petted the beast before me. She looked like a kid playing with a cat at this moment. And these guys wanted me to act serious?
"Oh right, she's here..." Kael said, sounding even more annoyed.
At this point, I'd already forgotten what Kael looked like when she wasn't annoyed.
