He looks a bit perplexed at the tongue clucking. Was it something he said? Was the sword just not good enough? He knew it was kind of a stretch considering those demons out there, but it wasn't like he had much else. And if one thing Zelos was terrible at, it was being the damsel and counting on others to protect him.

"How long? Uh, since I was a kid, really...ten or so years." Sometime after he started realizing assassins might be a regular occurrence in the his life. Like it was said, he wasn't good at counting on others to protect him.