[ From his perspective, Gilgamesh isn't special. He'll afford him the same courtesy and the same viable threat for his actions as anyone else. This is what allows his boldness to continue to apply to him. That he seems to like it is, well... an unintended side-effect. He hadn't realized it would happen until just before this moment, and perhaps against his better judgment, he does continue to feed into it by insisting to establish the same expectations of Gilgamesh as every other Hero before and after him.

But consciously or no, there is an undeniable part of that lingering that's less Knightly than the rest. The explicit part of it that keeps him attentive. If he feels that, Levi won't mention it. There's nothing he'd dislike more than to acknowledge the flaw in his thinking, the one thing setting his intentions apart from Gilgamesh's own.

His eyebrows raise, calling him on his bluff. ]

Ah? So are you.

[ Yes, although he's clearly provoked into finding the exchange annoying, the difference that Levi had so exactingly gone out of his way to highlight is what keeps him in check. He won't just shamelessly reach for a fight founded on nothing. He really will leave, if he gets the wrong answer. (In fact, it would be better for his conscience.) ]

"The King" keeps yapping like I should pay him homage when we've already settled our one dispute. Are you really that insistent on being punished?