He's too smart for his own good. They could just be eating garbage food and going about their day, but nooo, Zel had to go and read the big words. Now he's just suspicious of everything in this store.

In the name of science, he's opening this bottle up right now and taking a drink because what does sodium hexametaphosphate taste like, and almost immediately grimaces.

"Gah, this is horrible! It just tastes like sugar! Tea should be the easiest thing in the world to make, it's just water and tea!"

No, fuck this, now he's on a quest. He will find real tea in one of these goddamn bottles if it's the last thing he does. Sorry Lina, he is now grabbing one of each different type of bottled tea and obsessively reading the label.