[Why does it feel like they're having two entirely separate conversations?]

Cut the crap. I ain't hiding or some shit. And I'm not gonna fight you like this, either.

[For one, he wouldn't even know where to start with that, lacking his Ars Magus and Soul Eater, not to mention Blood-Scythe. Two, now that he thinks back to it, he made a promise to Xun Yu not to start fights in her body. And three... well, considering their relationship, it's no wonder he's a little surprised: "ally" is the warmest description of a person Ragna has ever heard from him.]

... Never knew you had it in yourself to like someone.

[Hello kettle, meet pot.]