Elric noticed a new person trying to get involved with the group.
Now, he didn't know what others thought, but people like that were whack most of the time. He could tell from experience. There was a time he was in middle school and he used to play around with some people. Back then, a lot of men and women alike would try to get involved with his friend group and then confess to him.
It was so damn annoying that he stopped having any friend groups eventually. Sleeping was a better use of his time anyway.
But those were people from a different world that didn't really understand the difference in stature between them and him.
From what Elric had seen, people of this world sure knew to pick their battles.
He had been confessed to by a total of zero guys and zero girls in this world!
And that must speak for something.