@thewizardguy@BurningColdErick rolled out from under the Jeep seconds before the Paladin crushed it and dusted himself off. "Rude..." he spoke lowly. He turned towards the two mid-conversation, arms crossed. Either Kami was completely off his nut, or a better liar than he was. It took all he could do to maintain his composure and out-right laugh at Kami. He remained sient, not interferring, simply listening.
He too was a tactician, a man of stealth, cunning, and wit. It would take more than brute force to deal with this situation, something Freelance didn't seem to understand.
All the while Erick was picking through Kami's mind, reading his true intentions, or trying. Kami has apparently had to deal with mind reading vampires before, hundreds of pointless thoughts streamed through his mind, some related, some not.
Some rather...interesting information surfaced from what he could gather however, amongst the sea of randomness. He grinned behind his visor and began his approach towards Kami, he focused his mental abilities directly to him.
"Ah, Kami No Kage, the infamous vampire slayer and 'General' of Purge." He spoke calmly, Kami would feel...something. He wouldn't quite be sure what. "This..peace you speak of. Yes.. I do indeed believe a peaceful route is the best to take. However, what is there to make us trust you? The word of a killer, a savage like the very threat you seek to destroy."
He spoke calmly and to the point, no traces of hostility or any other emotion in his voice, just sincerity. "Now, don't get me wrong. It is quite clear you've changed much in the past ten years, but as they say. History repeats. What guaru-" And then, smoke grenade. Erick sighed heavily and stayed where he was, 'Idiots..' he thought.
He watched as Kami sped after the Jeep and whistled lowly. He to set off after them, pacing himself to be behind Kami as he ran. He made no moves to attack, simply follow. He flipped the Jeep with ease, made a few threats, and then the human-ish torch appeared melting things all over the place. Erick continued to simply stare and watch for a few moments before continuing. Kami would still have something tugging at the edge of his sub-conscious from the small conversation the two had before..smoke grenade. "Now then..where was I..eh." Erick tried to remember, but failed.
He tried to focus on both Kami and the human torch melting the Humvee. "Now, now. Let's calm down alright? So what, we killed a few people, blew up a fuel thingy. You've done the same, and worse. The past is in the past, even if the past was only a hour or two ago. Let's just ease down a bit, lower our guns, and talk this out like men and human torches yes?"
As a last resort he could cloak out and ditch these morons he'd decided to help.
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Blood was..moderately confused at the image of the man and the snail, he simply shrugged and shouted. "Not the philosophical type buddy, gunna have to give it to me straight!"