"Just what do you want?" Aether said, gritting his teeth. "I'm really not in the mood right now."
Lilith tilted his head, teasing him. "And why is that? Because you lost so humiliatingly? I thought you wouldn't care that much, but I guess I don't know you as much as I thought."
"It's not because of..." Aether paused for a second... he really didn't know why he was so angry; after all, he knew he wasn't going to win, and there were no hard feelings between him and Orion. He was actually a bit relieved that it was him who beat him, since he was the only one who wouldn't publicly mock him.
If he had lost to a Celestial, it would have been much worse; his name would have gotten dragged through the mud for months by him.
But at the same time... he didn't like that he had lost. He had spent a lot of time learning his way of fighting with the blade, just to get massively outmatched; he didn't understand how, and it hurt his pride more than he wanted it to.
