And for that response, Zero gave Sechs yet another look, this time seeming as if he couldn't believe Sechs had just asked such a question. (Which, he would probably admit later, wasn't very fair since Sechs didn't know...but he was about to tell him, so it didn't really matter, did it?)

"She's not a fighter or an android like us." Despite the annoyance on his face, Zero still spoke very matter-of-factly. "She's a scientist and my leader. I can't let anything happen to her." He especially wasn't about to take Ciel down to the basement, where the monsters previously encountered there were clearly more dangerous than the ones on the Institute's upper floors. It was bad enough that she was here as a prisoner in the first place...