A/N: For the fourth round of Compy's pairing challenge, euroshipping!

"Alright Seto, moment of truth. Male or female."

Seto eyed the question asker contemptuously. "If you were less obtuse you'd know the answer."

Jou balked. "Ya, you're right, I do know the answer. Robot."

Seto mock considered what had been meant as an insult. "Depends on the robot."

Jounouchi's eyes widened and he stared at his arch rival for a long moment before bursting into laughter and punching him on the shoulder. Seto bore it with good grace and while they would never be close and every conversation still resembled an argument to some degree, the teenage hostility with which they had regarded one another had worn down some, leaving a strange, sort of volatile friendship in it's wake.

A summons from Yugi kept Jou from perusing the matter. "Alright man, you win this round but I will dig the answer out of you yet. Honda's got money on asexual reproduction but I know you gotta have a preference of some kind."

Jou left taking his laughter with him and in it's absence, a far quieter but equally amused laugh was revealed and Ryou slipped into the barstool on the other side of Seto, beer in hand.

"Depends on what kind?" he asked and Seto decided to humor him, his own drink half empty.

"It's all a matter of hotness verses technology level. The higher the technology level, the less hot it would have to be for me to sleep with it. And if it had both superior technology and was pleasant to look at, then yes, to use a crude term from modern slang, I would hit that."

"Reasonable, perfectly reasonable," Ryou managed with a straight face then leaned in just a bit closer. "What about besides robots?"

"What do you mean?" His eyes narrowed and he pointed an accusatory finger at Ryou. "You're trying to get me to tell."

He laughed. "I assure you I only have my own interests at heart and I don't have any money in the pool."

It finally occurred to Seto to realize just how close his companion was sitting. "Huh." He took a moment to consider the new information then asked, "So what technology level are you then?"

Ryou thought for a moment. "My cellphone has the specs of a low end computer," he offered.

"As does mine. You'll need to have done something noteworthy with it if you're going that route."

"It has game system emulators."

"Mildly impressive, which system?"

"All of them."

"Very nice. And it still runs smoothly?"

"As silk."

"Alright then, the technology level seems to be more than sufficient," Seto conceded with a small smile and Ryou through a look over his shoulder.

"Shall we sneak out then while Jou's not paying attention?"

The smile might have widened just a tad.

"Yes, I'd hate to give anything away too soon. Besides, I have money riding on how long it takes him to figure it out."

Ryou nearly choked for laughing so hard. "Brilliant."