[ It might be warranted but that's not going to stop Claude from sending an unimpressed look across the table as his first reaction. That ends up being more like an attempt at one considering there's no small amount of mirth behind it. ]

Careful, now I'm just offended you think I wouldn't come up with something far more elaborate if that's what I was trying to do.

[ A little too late it occurs to Claude that setting up a months-long campaign of some kind to do just that does sound like something he'd try out for any number of reasons, so - maybe lightly teasing Sylvain here isn't the best choice. Besides that, the slivers of honesty he's been granted are nothing to risk accidentally losing and he sets his spoon down to look at Sylvain rather seriously. ]

But to actually answer your question: no, I'm not.