"Bella, what do you say? Do you still insist on protecting this beast's life much more than going to travel together with me, your brother..?"
Mirage looked at her with a tranquil and indifferent expression on the surface but deep inside him, he was already feeling anxious and worried that she wouldn't choose him.
He didn't want to look desperate in her eyes. He doesn't need to be despicable by showing her a pitiful expression as well.
That would make Bella choose him, sure, but it also means that she was just forced to choose him because she pitied him, and Mirage didn't want that.
He didn't like it in the least bit. Mirage treated it as an act of foolish childishness to force theirselves on those people who doesn't even want them.
Mirage happened to think of a perfect saying for this:
"A person doesn't need to change and force theirselves to those people who doesn't even appreciate their worth."
