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He did not mind. After all, it much easier for him to let his father take control as far as physical touch went than to have him guess-work it - objects were one thing, he could not harm objects by miscalculating how much pressure he was applying... and thankfully, he lacked the sheer physical strength to break most things that way. Persons and animals, however... he'd accidentally hurt his fair share, especially his guardian right after she became more human than robot. That wouldn't make a very good first impression.

"It's kind of silly and hard to explain... All short of things, I guess ?" He offered as an explaination, even if it wasn't really a very good one. "Also of 'what ifs' and 'what is he like', you know ?"

"I... don't think I was ever angry about it." Frustrated, perhaps, and even that had not been directly at his father but more-so at... circupstances. "Zero told me there was most likely to be something that kept you away. She seemed so certain of it..." And turn out, by all apparences, his guardian had been right. Like she tended to be about many things.

And Hoshi's plan, it seemed, was working very well. "She's a little... special, I guess. No duh. He had seen her, after all ! The cyborg had always been excentric, and now that she's discovered apparence-altering magic... yes. "But she's very nice and caring... in spite of apparences. She does graphic design and works from home." That was not exactly the truth - Zero did graphic design, of course, but it mostly was a front for her services as a hacker, though... he figured this would not quite fly so well. "She's got quite a few kids to care for, but most of them moved out." In fact, the notion had been tugging at his mind ever since he finally found a stable source of income, but... not yet. He could be patient.

That, and he didn't expecially want to move out -alone-.

"Not quite yet, but... soon. If that makes any sense. Nothing against her at all, but... well, you know ? I've got to do it someday." Zero missed most of her children dearly, but he could also see that she enjoyed regaining her freedom, little by little - it seemed a good thing for the both of them, though he could not imagine not keeping in touch with the woman that had stuck by his side for the last four years, and had been more of a mother to him than his birth mother had ever managed to be.

"Might want to think about a new bike first." The one he had... had seen better days. It was the one he had been using as a child, and the seat only came so far up.

"Yep. Sounds like they fell down from the same tree." Sei said, an amused smirk on his face. Zero was much the same, and perhaps this was a part of why the two women got along. "Hopefully she can cook, unlike Zero." The smirk remained, showing he was more amused than irritated, thankfully so as otherwise his voice had remained somewhat flat. He still forgot to try and push emotion in it sometimes.

"Sometimes. I am... not especially skilled at it either." He admitted, looking and sounding vaguely embarrassed about the fact. He outdid his guardians in a few fields, but cooking was not one of them. "Pretty sure I've burnt water once."

Sei had been about to answer, but the sudden look of confusion on his father's face made him peek in that direction, his previous comeback forgotten.

What was going on ?