"It was a prank on your mentor, and you thought it was just a harmless joke?"Ellis' voice was a little colder than it had been a moment ago, "Nyx, it's time you learned to restrain yourself."
"Restraint?"Nyx snorted, the pupils of his golden-red eyes narrowing slightly, revealing a bit of the demon's characteristic contempt, "It's not like you don't know that I'm not a creature that 'follows the rules'."
Ellis was silent for a moment, and eventually just said faintly, "Then you will continue to do so."
Nyx froze.
"If you insist that what you're doing is okay, then you can continue."Ellis looked up at him with a frighteningly calm expression, "I won't remind you again."
With that, he turned and left.
Nyx stood in place, the smile at the corner of his mouth completely tightening.
This time, he was truly enraged.
Thus, he began to chill out and ignore Ellis.
For two days, he almost ignored Ellis' existence, even if the two of them lived in the same tutor's dormitory, and even if Ellis was right beside him, he still looked indifferent.
Ellis didn't deliberately try to coax him, he just quietly observed Nyx's reaction.
Then, in the mentor's lounge in the late afternoon, the scene happened-
Steven advised Ellis, "Coax him well, it's easy to coax, I've raised magical elves."
Ellis said lightly, "Demons and elves are different."
Then, Meclair smiles and adds, "I advised Mentor Steven the same way back then."
Ellis: "?"
Meclair: "He said disdainfully at the time, 'Can a dog be the same as a sentient magical creature?'"
Ellis: "..."
Meclair smiles, "But I've always wanted to clarify that I don't have just any dog."
Ellis: "..."
Meclaire: "It's a three-headed dog."
Ellis: "..." Probably every young tutor in their early twenties has the idea of wanting a special magical creature.
Half an hour later, Ellis stood in the doorway of his dormitory and looked at Nyx, who was sitting on the windowsill in the sun, and finally spoke, "How much longer are you going to be angry?"
Nyx straightened the hem of his shirt without even looking back, "Depends on whether you want to apologize or not."
Ellis spoke in a calm tone, "You think you're really right?"
Nyx paused, then grunted, "I think you're overreacting."
"You know what your problem is."Ellis looked at him, "But you don't want to admit it."
Nyx finally turned back, the red pupils of his eyes flashing with discontent, "And what about you?Don't you have any problems at all?"
Ellis didn't answer.
Ellis had never been good at coaxing people.
He had always been calm, rational, and restrained, and would not take the initiative to appease anyone.Most of the time, he was better at using facts and logic to make the other person understand "why they shouldn't be angry" rather than pandering to their emotions.
But this time, he realized he had to do something.
Nyx's attitude over the past two days had been too obvious - he never talked to Ellis, he didn't stick around to have fun like he used to, and he even purposely turned away from him when he showed up.Though he didn't say it with his mouth, Nyx was obviously really mad at him.
Ellis didn't feel that he'd gone overboard with the reprimand in the first place; Nyx's pranks had really gone too far, and he'd needed to be reminded of that.But he equally understood that Nyx's pride wouldn't allow him to admit his mistake outright.