"Lets just say a job is a job. When your on my side, consider yourself on the safe side of my immovable block and not like this one."

From the brush of wind there was the sound of glass shattering, splintering outward were shards of spiked ice, dancing with swirls of darkness. It seems as if the youth had broken through several layers of captivity. The ice stretched, and etched into the sides of the alley's buildings, creating a cradle that held the massive slab suspended in tow. With a look caution and calculation, he raised a finger and pointed it like a gun. It hovered just in front of the mercenary.

"Yo." Gavin said giving a salute.

He wasn't much for words, but it was enough to discern he wouldn't be easily detained. Salforge understood what happened well enough, he must've been freezing the interior of the block at a rapid rate, causing the shells to shatter. Magic damage was ideal, he'd have to use a stronger block next time.

Brimming with darkness, he sat in the icy perch as if befitting of a low-level duke. Gavin wasn't in a position to run, from what the woman Ryoko said, the Unbound Hearts had already struck by raiding a storehouse. He wasn't apart of raiding team, nor did he arrive in time to be briefed or even commissioned yet. To think he'd encounter empire now of all times, it was far from what he was expecting. Jumping down from his perch it started to walk forward a bit before standing standing in place.

"Am I being detained for questionable identity? The burden of proof falls on you." He spoke in the first clear and concise sentence, and harbored thick darkness at his feet. The air crawled deeper into a cold respite, the teen flcked his bangs back and waited for them to return answer.

Salforge paused for a moment still on his guard, but turned his head to the general.

"Assaulting military?" he questioned, as he didn't have a full answer.