“Now, hurry up!”
Lloyd immediately put forth one of his hands.
His gesture was saying to hurry up and bring out the medal.
“…Ha~ah.”
Riley sighed quietly.
“…”
Nainiae glanced back and forth between Riley and Lloyd. Soon, as if she realized that the older young man with blond hair was not a good person to Riley, she narrowed her eyes.
<Don’t do it.>
Nainaie was going to give Lloyd a shot of her magic, the kind that won’t require her to recite a spell and all she had to do would have been just concentrating mana. She was going to prepare it in secret and shoot it, but she could hear Riley’s voice in her head.
‘Why?’
Nainiae moved her eye and looked at Riley from the side.
She couldn’t figure out exactly what he was thinking, but there was a little bit of the expression on his face that showed he was finding all this to be a nuisance. That much was certain.
So, to make sure she doesn’t end up getting in Riley’s way, she put away the mana that she focused and decided to just quietly watch the situation.
“Yes. Well… I’ll show it to you.”
Riley put his hand in the pocket again and brought out the medal.
It was a golden medal with Solia’s insignia engraved on it.
It was certainly the medal that Daniel, the prince of Solia, bestowed to Riley.
“…Oh, oh oh?”
Now that he was looking at the medal in person, Lloyd’s eyes widened.
It looked like he never thought Riley would really bring a medal.
“This is the medal that you received from that old man?”
As Lloyd stared at the medal, which was shaped just like the one hanging in Stein’s office, he narrowed his eyes as if he grew suspicious and asked,
“How should I say this… I find this… quite surprising.”
“…?”
“Ah ah. Don’t misunderstand me. It’s just that I can’t imagine how you would have done it. I find it hard to believe that you received it.”
Lloyd said as he waved his hand around and smiled.
Watching Lloyd, Nainiae’s patience reached its limit. She crumpled her face.
It was difficult for her to stand still when Lloyd was making a mockery of Riley about his accomplishments.
“…”
The servants watching the second-born and the youngest of the House were also drenched in cold sweat.
Of course, this wasn’t the first time Lloyd made mockery of Riley for him being lazy, but they were worried because the situation now was a little different.
‘Is it okay to do that?’
They were thinking that.
No matter how things led to Riley receiving the medal, it was a medal of honor that was bestowed on him by the royalty.
Lloyd doubting the medal that Riley held could also imply that he was doubting the judgment of Solia Castle's royalty. This was the reason for the servants’ concerns.
“By chance, can you please explain it to me? How did you get the medal?”
“…”
“Hm. I wonder why you can’t just answer? It’s frustrating. Riley, by chance, you…”
Listening to Lloyd’s provocation, to how he was blurring the end of his sentence as he narrowed his eyes, Riley opened his mouth,
“…Big Brother.”
“Um?”
Riley was holding the medal in his palm and had stretched his hand toward Lloyd to show it to him. Now, Riley slowly grabbed hold of the medal.
Riley held the tip of the medal’s tail with his thumb and index finger and swung it left and right in front of Lloyd’s face as if he was performing hypnosis.
“If you like this so much, shall I give it to you?”
“What?”
In leisurely tone, with a smile, Riley made the proposition.
At this, not just Lloyd, but the servants, who were watching them also, closed their mouths without even being able to make gasping sounds.
“It’s just that you seem like you really want to have it.”
Riley brought back the medal, which he was lightly swinging around, close to his face. He carefully observed Solia’s insignia on it, and as if he got bored of it, he held it toward Lloyd and said,
“For me, it’s a bother to have it anyway.”