He still leaves, but remains motivated.

"Why I oughta!" Bate snarled, getting up, prepared to teach this weakling a lesson.

"Sit down, Pup," one of the women, a slim redhead sniggered.

"But Loki-sama!" Bate protested. "He's making fun of me!"

"And you were making fun of him," Aizu replied. "Turnabout's fair play."

"Well yeah, but I'm a higher level than him!" Bate growled, though reluctantly complying. "I got the right to taunt him!"

"There you go again, with your rhetoric of the strong being the only ones worth anything," Aizu snorted. "No one starts out strong Bate. But everyone has the potential to get that way..."

Bate just ground his teeth and turned away from the upstart, determined to ignore him. Bell blushed a bit at the statement from Aizu, and considered approaching her to thank her for defending him, a stranger she had already saved from getting in over his head. But he ultimately decided against it.

He decided he would have to get stronger before he could even think of approaching Aizu. And he wouldn't use the Sex Note on her until he had actually befriended her for real, crush be damned. So he finished his meal, paid for it, and headed out, leaving Bate to stew in his embarrassment, and his own Familia to mock him.

"I should probably head home... But I want to get stronger, and fast..." Bell muttered to himself. He turned to look in the direction of the dungeon. It was reckless, doing so in the middle of the night... But he needed to spend time in there if he wanted to catch up with the real big shots of this world. And with that thought, he walked towards the dungeon.