A/N: Look! It's the second review in a month! :O Amazing, ne?

"Have you seen Lloyd anywhere?"

Zelos raised a brow at Regal's question. "Should I have?"

"You were collecting Exspheres with him."

"And right now I'm not."

"So you don't know where he is."

"Not at the moment, no. I—" A smellspread through the room, a disgustingly familiar smell, and his nostrils flared. "What is that smell?"

"Hmm?" Regal glanced down at the small vial in his hand and grimaced. "Oh. My apologies. This—"

Zelos was suddenly staring very intently at the vial, eyes narrowed. "What is that?" he growled, voice dangerous.

"It's a failed product of my company. A cologne we call 'eau de seduction.' However—"

"So it's a cologne?" Zelos looked interested, even thoughtful now. "Regal, it smells worse than a pile of shi—actually, scratch that. It smells worse than the Meltokio sewers."

"That's exactly where we intend to put all of it."

"Hm. It'll make it more difficult to sneak into town…but they were planning to seal up the sewers anyway. Make sure to do it soon."

"Yes, we plan to."

"So this cologne…" Zelos was still staring at it intently. "I see. I assumed he just hadn't cleaned at all, but it was this…Regal."

Completely lost, Regal responded, "yes?"

"Is this crap popular at all?"

"No, after a few vials, it became famous as a terrible product, and we made very few sales. Most people returned it, and—"

"Who did you sell it to?" Zelos demanded.

"Why does that matter?"

"No reason. Just curious."

"I don't know who it was sold to. There weren't many sales, however, as I said, despite the promise that it would make the wearer of the cologne irresistable to…everyone."

"Hah."

"Where are you getting with—"

"Oh, nowhere, nowhere!" the Chosen's voice was cheery again, all the previous thoughtfulness and interest gone. "You'd better hurry to dump that stuff if you want to be able to. They were talking about sealing the sewers tonight."

Regal paused. "Yes," he said finally. "I'll do that."

Zelos smiled as the former convict left. He hadn't been this cheerful for a long time.

It was an imposter it was an imposter it was an imposter…

Lloyd didn't wear cologne.

Lloyd barely even knew of cologne.

Furthermore, Lloyd wasn't interested in getting people to be attracted to him. He'd said as much.

All the others can doubt Lloyd, but I'll know he's still him…

Although, that didn't answer the questions of where he was and how—or why—there'd been an imposter in the first place.

Goodbye, good mood.

"Zelos," Sheena said, looking at the Chosen, who was sprawled out on the couch with a cool, indifferent look on his face. "It's been awhile."

"What do you want?"

"Are you feeling all right?"

"Fine. What do you want?"

That was strange. Usually he'd be grinning that stupid grin and flirting with her within seconds. She debated asking what was up to make him so…serious for once, but decided against it. She was here for a reason. "Have you heard from Lloyd recently?"

"Why?"

Dammit, why couldn't he just say? "You heard the stories about what he's done, right?"

"They're lying."

"Can you really say that with certainty?"

"Are you saying you can't?"

She put her hands on her hips. "I'm saying that if they are true, I want to smack Lloyd back into place."

Zelos eyed her coldly for a minute, then stood up slowly. She'd forgotten how tall he was. "Do you know how many people have come by demanding that I tell them where Lloyd is?"

"N...no. A lot?"

"No one trusts Lloyd, and I don't have any reason to give information to someone who could just as easily hurt Lloyd as help him."

Sheena raised a brow, trying to hide her surprise. "Are you trying to protect him? Do you really think it'll help him to have people who could be helping him being unable to even find him?"

"You don't trust Lloyd."

"If I have to smack some sense into him, I'll…"

"He doesn't need any sense smacked into him, Sheena." He wasn't even looking at her anymore, though his voice was still cold. "He didn't attack Palmacosta. He doesn't need your help."

"You don't know th—"

"Oh, but I do. I trust Lloyd, and I have a good reason for doing so. I don't have any reason to trust you, and as such, I'm afraid you'll have to find Lloyd on your own. Show yourself out."

"Zelos—"

"Go, already. You've got the Mizuho Information Network behind you, don't you?"

"Just one thing. One question." He didn't reply, so she just continued on. "What's your reason for trusting Lloyd so much? Last I checked, you weren't that trusting of a person."

"I'm still not. Oh, will you look at the time? I've got a meeting with Clara. If you'll excuse me."

"Zelos! Why the heck do you trust Lloyd so much?"

There was a brief pause. He didn't even look back at her when he replied.

"Because he's Lloyd."

She could only stare after him when he left.

He called that a good reason?

A/N: Another short chapter…ah, well. Review if you want to. It'd make me happy.