Szayel folded his arms, coffee cup still clutched in one hand. Nel had shown flagrant disrespect to Hojo, had she?

"That's behaviour unbecoming of the Tres Espada, don't you think?"

He wouldn't call himself Hojo's number one fan. The man did want to pick an Arrancar apart, and Szayel considered the Arrancar his personal project. Kurotsuchi could go to hell. They were developed in his labs, certainly, but he hadn't been invested enough in the project to become part of it like Szayel had.

Still, Hojo was a great scientist, and simpletons like Nel should afford him the respect he earned as such.