That admission's enough for him and Brainiac 5 smiles slightly. He knows he shouldn't feel so pleased at possibly upsetting the other, but at this point it's difficult not to feel jealous and anyway, his counterpart was the one to raise the subject in the first place.

Still, he's pretty curious about what else might be different about them, beyond the obvious physiological aspect, and asks in a slight forced off-hand voice, "do you have many friends in the Legion?"