[Zelos' crowning moment of heartworming dere is well-timed, because Nora had just scooped up a handful of rapidly congealing bug gunk that he was probably planning on stuffing in Kaede's mouth like you'd do in a mudfight or whatever extremely mature adults in a dungeon are meant to be doing with conveniently sticky gross stuff.

... So instead, before their resident walking gravity catapult runs off, he also gets that handful of bug gunk to the shoulder -- just in case he wasn't sticky enough already -- while Nora makes an irritated huffing noise and turns away towards what looks vaguely like the way forward.

Probably he smacks himself in the face with one of the fronds sticking out of the overgrown jungle by moving too fast, but let's pretend he meant to do that, also.]

You better get back quick before I get hungry enough to eat her. [..... even if she's not human or anything, the mildly demonic habit of threatening to eat anything sentient out of pique is alive and well] It's not like she's that helpful in the first place... What the hell're we supposed to do to keep going, anyway?? Burn the damn plants down?

[To underscore this (and this is in no way petulant), he yanks the abovementioned frond out of its stalk and glares at it suspiciously.]