Honestly, he could have taken either and just accepted it... if with some more annoyance, even if it'd have been his own fault. Sometimes, Cloud was graceful about things, others... not to much.

"... No, sir." Cloud tried, really, truly tried, to let that be all he said, but then he twitched his shoulders in a tiny shrug. "Expected there to be... more people here, though."

Unless Rufus really had gone through the trouble of asking up everyone in his detail up one after the other, for some unearthly reason.