He got a little distracted and lost focus on what the two girls were talking about.
"I don't have any reason to show deference to a Tier 2 child nor do I think he is deserving of it," Amelia said while pointing at Julius again.
Stop pointing at me, Julius thought to himself. I don't want anything to do with you anymore.
Before Lily could defend him again, Julius walked up to her, and just like how she did for him just a few minutes ago, he grabbed her shoulder and stopped her. She tilted her head up and looked at him with a surprised expression as if asking why he was preventing her from defending him.
"It doesn't matter," he said calmly. He turned to look at the still-mad Amelia just a few feet away. "Her opinion doesn't matter to us. She doesn't matter to us. Nothing she says or does will change that."
Julius heard some chuckles from others after he said that. Aubrey even said, "Damn right," proudly from the side.
Lily looked between him and the others with a slight smile on her face. "You're right," she said to him. Then she stared intensely at Amelia, "She doesn't matter to us at all."
Julius watched as Amelia clenched her fists tightly upon hearing that. However, that reaction made up for everything. If she was hoping to get closer to the others, she failed miserably, and this ostracization from the others would be a far more devastating punishment than his scolding of her.
Julius pulled Lily in the other direction. "Let's go. We still have some time to fool around before we need to get back," he said to her.
Lily let herself get pulled away easily before she stopped and said, "Wait. What about her assaulting you with her aura?"
He let loose a hearty laugh. "What? That aura attack? Please, it was so weak I didn't even feel anything. Ask her yourself, she wasn't even able to pressure me a single bit," he mocked her, not bothering to look in her direction.
He had a feeling that calling her weak and not even looking at her when doing so would piss her off more than anything else he could say to her. And he was correct, [Spatial Perception] was able to pick up her tense muscles and extremely furious posture. However, he knew that she wouldn't do anything. Not when the others had his back.
While he didn't need to be that petty, he still believed that he had every right to. She should be lucky that's all he was willing to do.
Lily smiled at Julius's insult of Amelia's aura strength and giggled before letting Julius lead her away again in the other direction.
However, when they were several feet away, he heard, "You were only able to withstand my aura because of your items. Don't be so smug about relying on external power," she said bitterly.
Julius gave a real genuine laugh at that. "Sure, doesn't matter either way… Weak is weak," he said mockingly before turning away for good, not even listening to her next words. He didn't deny her accusations, if anything that helped him out. He didn't have to explain why he had such a strong aura as a Tier 2 this way.
After they had walked away from the drama-riddled girls. Aubrey finally spoke up. "Well, I for one am glad that's over," she said with a relieved sigh.
Julius stopped and turned to look at her with a look of utter disbelief. "You are the one who invited them over to our table, to my celebration, nonetheless," he said in an irritated tone. "Don't think you are going to get away with this. You have some apologizing to do."
"What? What did I do?" Aubrey asked in genuine shock.
"What did you do? Did you not just listen to me? The only reason why we had to go through that was because you wanted to tease me," he pointed out angrily.
"That wasn't the only reason!" She argued.
He sarcastically tilted his head and crossed his arms. "Oh? What was the other reason?"
"You need some friends," she said matter-of-factly.
"I need some friends?" He asked incredulously.
She shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah, I thought it would be nice for you to make friends with the Grace girl," Aubrey said lamely.
"And now? Do you still think I should be friends with her now?" Julius asked with a scoff.
"Hey, in Grace's defense. She wasn't that bad. It was her bodyguard that was acting like a bitch," she said while putting her hands in the air.
"Bodyguard?" Julius asked confused. "I thought she said she was a teaching assistant."
Aubrey just shook her head. "Yeah, that was probably just some lame excuse. I've never seen her and I know for a fact that other important scions have bodyguards protecting them while they go off into the city. She was too worried about keeping attention on the surroundings to not be worried about protecting the girl."
"I agree. She was definitely making it sound as if Grace was someone important," Lily commented as well.
He frowned and scratched his chin. "Even when they are on campus?" He asked.
"You saw her on campus?" Derek asked from the side. "I thought you said you only met the girl last night." Somehow the conversation had derailed again.
"I only officially met Grace but Amelia was with her too. She was just invisible, I didn't say anything, but she was following her around like she was her friend. I thought she was just training her stealth skill and pretended to ignore her," Julius said with a shrug. "I thought bodyguards weren't allowed on campus, so her being a teaching assistant made sense."
Derek looked at Julius seriously. "No, you're right. Bodyguards aren't allowed on campus. It would be a nightmare if every noble born wanted their bodyguards on campus. Not even I can have bodyguards with me, not that I would want them."
"So what are you saying?" He asked Derek.
"I don't know. Perhaps, she really is an assistant but also keeps an eye out for her. It's not uncommon for family friends to be staff at Goldencrest," Derek said with a contemplative tone.