Cloud wanted to laugh at Zack's story -- and anyway, he might have. There was a happy smile on his face as images of Zack heaving cranes or plopping down to the ground, standing up, dusting himself and walking away flashed in his mind and he shook his head, dipping it a little as if to hide his glee. It was a funny vision and what made it funny was because it was real.
The part of the bullets, that wasn't funny. Cloud had then realized that Zack had come in just mere moments before he had died, and his smile might have faded but it was still there: because he was still happy that Zack had come in before he died...
He pointed to a red hued decoration near his ear. "Just recently," Cloud said to explain before he picked up his pizza and bit from it, again. "It was last week, I think, when the monsters began appearing. Several people died, there were a lot of attacks. It's better now." But the dead stayed dead...