Well, that was a relief. Clive would have been pretty pissed if Zero did do something to it, considering that he had subjected himself to this deafness in order to lessen Heiji's punishment. Though if this was the lesser punishment, he had to wonder what Zero originally had in store for him.

Zero played a loud explosion-like sound before my elevator doors opened. I haven't been able to hear anything since. He paused for a moment before adding, I told him to punish me so that you would get a lighter punishment.