What do you want to do?

"I'm sorry that you felt the need to lie to me about something like… this."

Wut?

Did I unknowingly gaslight this wanker?

This is just wow.

"Don't be."

I have no idea why he would feel apologetic for MY actions.

"I'm still sorry."

"I said, don't be," my tone came out sterner than I was intending it to be.

I mean, my reason for lying wasn't something like I was scared of what Azell would do. No, not at all.

In fact, if we're talking about lying, I had absolutely no need to lie. All I needed to do was to make a second Elixir and present it.

I also could have claimed that I had only prepared the concept and needed a bit more time to produce an actual Elixir.

Wait, that second one was a lie.

Anyway, the point is I had countless other ways of avoiding making the particular lie I just did.

However, the reason I used this lie was to teach Neia a lesson.