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Rei blinked at the girl. Rose? Was that really her name? How ironic, he thought. The fear in her eyes, the desperation in her voice, the wince in her expression as she tried to stand… He couldn’t help but smirk. "I am Rose, Thorns shall protect me." And when she spoke, he laughed out loud.

“Where are your Thorns when you need them most, huh?” he scoffed, motioning to Cyrus and Splice. “But, look here, all my Fangs are right by my side. Some friends you got there.”

"Please have mercy, Rei."

Rei raised an eyebrow, slightly surprised she remembered his name. He leaned against the hole he made in the wall. “Mercy?” he snorted. “Never heard of it.” He narrowed his eyes and grabbed the side of the hole across from him that stopped melting away, letting the acid burn it away once more. He was suddenly asking himself why he was having some sort of conversation with her when he could be running her off Fang property. “Look, I don’t care why you’re here. Just get out before I melt your face off or something.” He knew it was an empty threat—he couldn’t really melt her face off—but even he had a conscious, though a very small one, and didn’t see the need to kill a defenseless girl.