"You have indeed grown, I mean...," Melifilia paused deliberately, "in terms of cheek."
"Thank you," Aiden answered nonchalantly, "so what's your reply?"
That's just how people are; once you break through the bottom line, you can become fearless in everything you do. As long as you throw yourself to the ground, nobody can hit your face—especially when you're facing a deity.
Having personally experienced the "games" arranged by Melissa, Aiden became fully aware that he had never truly been Melifilia's guardian but just a pet dancing in the palm of her hand.
He had once genuinely believed that he carried the duty of guarding a deity, and he had even expressed to Melifilia the theory that mortals must monitor deities to grasp their right to exist. In the end, Melifilia never actually cared about the mortals' imprisonment.
But no matter how disheartened he felt, it didn't change reality; he could only come to terms with the gap between himself and the deity.
