Okay, but holding something out of reach of your retainer is essentially stealing from him, especially when he's so much smaller, unable to reach up as high as you-- Lilia was going to see it as thievery, for sure.

The situation wasn't shameful in the slightest to him. Were he to be serious about it, instead of messing around and taunting Malleus, he might have been able to actually comfort him about it, to tell him that it was perfectly normal, especially for someone like him. Someone as repressed as Malleus, unable to really know what to do in a situation like that.

Ah, and, maybe, he wouldn't have kissed him. That seemed to add to Malleus' struggle.

"Why not?" Lilia smiles slightly again. It's small, soft, as if he's actually trying, now, to support him properly. "In this world, it's an eye for an eye, is it not? A bite for a bite is only fair." Lilia lets his arm fall back down, pressing both of his hands down into his own lap as he leans back against the desk, trying to make it look like a casual motion. Something to allow him to hide his own slight arousal.

"I won't make you if you don't think it'll help. What would help, my dear? Tell me, and I'll make it all better."