Zero didn't speak French growning up, but he deals with creole speakers often enough that it slips into his own language now and then. And then there is his last name, which, suggests that maybe it's in his genes somehow. Night City is an amalgam of people and cultures, it all bleeds together after a while. It bleeds on you too.

"Always been that way is fair enough."

He listens to the specifics of the yellow eyes being offered to him. He isn't particularly literate in the health sciences, but he has the gist. He comes from a place where population is declining too, though they haven't needed to go as far as breeding projects.

"So then, it sounds like there's an authority in your life that you have to submit to. Or that you did at one time, anyway."