There is a very, VERY brief humorless smile as the bun is snatched, the Aero spell dissipating. It would have been more impressive if he'd had a fire materia, but he's making do with Aero. Ruin wouldn't do a damn thing. "Yes, that's what the uninformed call it. I'm sure you'd call a baking soda and vinegar volcano a spell too."

He shakes his head slightly. "You're not to blame for not knowing how things work. If your education systems don't teach you, how would you know? If they taught you the wrong thing, you'd also never know. Imagine what you could do if you weren't limited by that." There's a fine line between blaming the ignorant masses and blaming the ones that are supposed to educate them. "You don't have to be restricted by the ignorance of your teachers, you know. It might mean swallowing a little pride, but the end result is you'll be able to do things they never even dreamed of." That's the power of science!

As long as it wasn't done quite the same way that the Professor did. A lot of good ideas came out of Research and Development, but the implementation ... left him with nightmares and scars.