It's not the first time Dimitri hasn't been taken seriously. It won't be the last. He watches Oda laugh with raised eyebrows, otherwise a diplomatically blank portrait of 'are you done?'

Oda can claim 'Demon King' doesn't require respect all he likes -- he sure acts like he's used to having it. It's nothing but an excuse to deny respect to anyone else. Dimitri saw him with Clarke and Darcy; the man can't even honor a basic 'don't touch me'. Dimitri knows Oda's type. He's not impressed.

He lets Oda rant about his ambitions with polite disinterest. His eyebrows rise a little higher when Oda demands Dimitri recite his own. Immediately after laughing so hard at him he nearly fell over -- does the man listen to himself? Or is he just obsessed with the sound of his own voice?

Dimitri inclines his head. Still polite, still neutral, he asks,

"Why?"