Well then that made three confused people, because Lea was confused too, though for him it was due to Xion's reaction. If anything, Gladio's answer should have been reassuring, but it seemed it was having the opposite effect.

Wait did she... really not understand that people went on missions by choice here? ...No, she wouldn't would she? Because she apparently didn't pay attention to anything if it didn't directly involve him or Roxas. He sighed.

"Xion, you know no one forces anyone on the train to do missions, right?", Lea said. "Or to do anything else. I do them because I think it's the right thing to do and want to help out. And you tend to go where I go, so you do them too. But if either one of us decided we didn't want to do the mission and just stay on the train, or that we wanted to do another team's portion of it, there wouldn't be any penalty for that." As he'd explained to multiple newbies and as anyone who'd been paying attention to how things on the train worked at all should know by now.

"And it's not like the team leaders pick the missions anyway. The train just.... goes places, with us along for the ride, and a lot of those places end up having people who need help on them. That's all."