Szayel had made his way to the doorway when Marluxia and Lumi had exited. He didn't want to get too close to the wyrm, of course, especially being one of the weakest Arrancar present, barring his own brother and Apache, but curiosity had a tendency to win out.

Wonderweiss really was intent on taming this thing. It was absurd. And yet.... Maybe it wasn't that absurd. Marluxia and Lumi seemed to have a weirdly consistent, if heavily biased, belief that Wonderweiss might be able to pull this off.

He raised an eyebrow as Wonderweiss began, and Neliel, being Neliel, did what she'd once reportedly done with Aizen, but this time to Marluxia. "If she keeps this up," he murmured, happily, "she's going to get herself a worse reputation than Nnoitra and Grimmjow."

Attacking or threatening fully fledged members of Khamja. Really, she should be setting a better example.

Lumi's reaction, though. That was worth her doing it just so that he could witness it first hand. Marluxia didn't show a second of hesitation, and nor did Lumi when he stepped in, as if he was offended by Nel's presumption.

"And if those two aren't fucking," he said, "Lumi wishes they were."