Kratos sounds so confident, gets into a fighting stance, and just like that Zelos realizes his mistake. Really, he'd been kind of expecting to scare him off just by reminding him he's a fucking Aegis, but. What happens now? Zelos doesn't want to fight Kratos. Quite the opposite, honestly; he'd rather just walk out of here without any more events.

Something nervous squirms in Zelos' core, leaving him glaring and clicking his tongue. Zelos doesn't move. He's frozen in place again, trembling slightly as he tries to maintain eye contact with Kratos. "Don't be stupid and throw your life away like that," Zelos says, calm and collected despite his insides screaming at him to stop with this idiocy. He takes a deep breath and turns away again. "I think you should leave."