Yes, fine. Leading the way was something Zero could do, along with continuing to be unimpressed by the way Harpuia was showing his feathers. Or rather, shoving his feathers in everyone's face. Oh, and he could trust him to keep watch over X as they moved along, too. Since X was the only one who truly mattered here.

At least they could (peacefully) agree that X would definitely be better off staying in between the two of them. Hopefully, though, he would be a little more sensible around danger should it appear this time around. It looked like he could walk without obviously limping now, true, but to have him get hurt immediately after he'd healed one injury...Zero would prefer to avoid that at all costs, especially when X was still unarmed.

Not that he doubted his best friend's ability to protect himself, but...after learning that X came from centuries in the past, and after seeing him try to make himself live bait for a transformed prisoner while he was unarmed? No. Not going to take any chances.

(In hindsight, Zero really should have brought his spare pipe with him so X could use it for the time being...but oh well. Nothing he could do about that now.)

[To here.]