Then another idea popped up; he could wager a fight with her -- so she will do her best against him. This somewhat simulated a real life scenario. But he needed something to motivate her to beat the living shit out of him. There were a few ways of stimulating her anger, her true anger. He smirked, and then hid his smirk when he heard steps going down the stairs.
"Arisa. I have been hiding this from you, but I thought you should know that I cheated on you with a red-haired woman from the south. And I have deeply fallen in love with her"
Noel sat on a spinny bar chair, far away enough from the stairs to anticipate and react to anything ill minded.