Then don't touch her, you bitch ??
Yeah, he just feels wronged because he thinks that since he played dumb while "subtly" keeping tabs on her, she was fooled and thus had no excuse to get over defensive, but he's really underestimating the girl's "intuition" (aka prior knowlege from the novel)
Not that many girls other than her wouldn't have also noticed.
God knows how many screenshots of Marianne, Eric and Serin I got from these two chapters only
Goddamn, I forgot how beautifully charming she can be.. my heart rate really went up throughout the entire chapter :sweats: