"Settle down... little chocobo. I am plenty familiar with love. No need to raise your hackles over the thought," Is he teasing now? Hard to tell between his haughty tone, and sly smirk, but there's hardly anything malicious to such a cutesy name. The laugh that follows is genuinely amused too.

"Mm, so the feelings are mutual between you then, and yet...? And if you mean young Aerith, well, death has certainly sailed that ship to open sea, now hasn't it. Besides that, what's stopping him from caring for both of you?"