He was, in fact. He remembers complaining to Usagi and Varian on the network about it.

"A vileblood thing, huh... that would make sense then, for it to be affecting both of us while everyone else is acting... different in other ways."

Is it really that simple? Just a weird quirk of this place rather than just his friends here finally seeing him as a threat? It's hard to believe, given the depths of Zib's self loathing, that it might just resolve itself eventually like the food problem did, but... he can't really bring himself to say as much in front of Luca yet. Luca might get upset and find fault in Zib too, and he can't allow that. Still...

"Then... maybe we should just wait it out somewhere? I mean, unlike the poison stuff, I'm not sure what you would do to fix this kind of thing until it blows over..."