Not that Cloud wouldn't have been as started and wary about that happening without the current development, but with it... well. Definitely weirded out, even if this was certainly the longest he'd been in Rufus' company without the layer of employer and employee between them.

"Of course it it." Flatly wry, though less accusatory and just exasperated. "You really do like what you do."

It's a comment, slightly thoughtful, but also another flat assessment, and Cloud's hasn't yet perfected the ability to look removed and aloof; he looks a little wary instead, frowning slightly. Not surprising, he supposes, considering Rufus position and the sort of surroundings ShinRa must have cultivated to get where it wanted.