While it helped to curb the irritation at being denied the respect of other adults, the calming waves being shoved toward him only served to highlight how sleepy Chris still was. He yawned wide and raised his arm to cover it, giving Belthazor an unimpressed look for continuing on that track.

"That's not what you meant," he denied. For such an attention-deprived person, he tended to have a negative reaction to people trying to do right by him. It just didn't make sense in his worldview, even coming from his very own summon who had no reason to be on anyone's side but his own.