...Lord Kelsey is not my -

[Oktavia almost shrieked - But that was when she realized that Marianna was almost burying her face in her hands, wincing.]

[The other people at the booth, on the other hand, were looking at both the girl Oktavia had been yelling at and Marianna, as if they couldn't decide exactly what to do. Some of them were even looking at Marinna directly, almost like they were begging her to do something about the situation.]

[.......Haaah? Well, she'd heard that some of the lords had "arrangements" with the local thieves, but...]

[Oh, well, she wouldn't make life more difficult for Lady Marianna if she could help it, and who knew what kind of "arrangements" her own family had made, but whatever, whatever.]

[Oktavia snarled, then, and pointed at the woods outside, looking straight at the now brown-haired girl who was sneering back at her wolfishly.]

- Very well, then, you idiot thief - Let's go and fight properly out there, so people don't get hurt, all right!?

[And then, she snickered, and said - ]

...And if I win, I get to keep that pretty spear of yours. That'll be fair, right?