Roy bristled at the words about him getting his ass kicked. Leave it to the younger blonde to keep bringing that fact up. He wasn’t surprised at all by the fact that it only took Ed a few months to learn Xingese. The other had always been super smart and picked up on things quickly. It’s why he also wasn’t surprised that Ed had become a professor.

However, he picked up on the slight issue Ed seemed to have with the word friend. He rose a brow and his smirk slowly slipped off his face. He tried to school his face to not show any jealousy or that it possibly bothered him. “You seemed to have an issue there. Is there another word you were wanting to use instead the word ‘friends’?” Roy’s voice was silky and teasing, not giving away how his mind was running around.

Certainly Edward didn’t mean anything else. He wouldn’t have been... dating the Emperor of Xing would he? In some ways, the brunette still thought of Edward as younger than his actual age. No way the same blonde in front of him had done things with the Emperor... right?