"You should try going outside," X snickered, and Zero opened one eye to find the Cyber Elf standing over his pod, looking upside down from Zero's perspective. "All you do is talk, train, and sleep."
"And all you do is flicker around and talk cryptic nonsense."
"I think I'm offended..." X pretended to sniffle. "Why, yes, I am offended. You're cruel."
Zero closed his eye, smirking. "I'm not apologizing."
X harrumphed, disappearing and reappearing on the pod next to Zero's, sitting cross-legged on its polished, glass lid. "So is the gossip going around true? You shot down Ciel?"
"For the love of... you too?" Zero jerked his upper body up, d