Lelouch made a disbelieving sound. "Fun? How could it be fun? You know what children are like. They're stubborn, noisy, and self-centered. All they ever do is demand things or run around and find new and interesting ways to hurt themselves. It's exhausting just to look at them." Not that he actually minded children or the concept of taking care of them, but he wasn't about to say that. He supposed... well, there was no point in thinking about that now, especially with all the other things it would dredge up. It was better to pretend.

He poked at the remainder of his fish and frowned, his thoughts still hovering elsewhere. The expression was thankfully fitting given his continuing disapproval of the food here (he wouldn't have permitted it otherwise), but there was definitely more to it than that. Neither of them could talk about it, though, so he merely added as a mock afterthought, "Not that that would bother you, what with your freakish stamina and all, but to the rest of us normal humans, it's a valid concern." Not. It was far more worrying to think of how Suzaku would take the jab when "exercise nut" had been right up there with "idiot" in the long list of insults they'd used when they were children, but since he hadn't seemed all that bothered by the latter, indirectly using the former had to be okay, right? They were just going through the motions anyway. It didn't mean anything.