[ It's amazing to him, that Veronica barely ever flinches even when told the most suspect of things: it's the same sort of gracious acceptance she displayed when they first met, her unyielding willingness to question where everyone else would turn away and not look back.
After all, Adolf assumes that a more reasonable reaction to being told that your conversation partner is an exterminator is to find an excuse to get the hell away.
He almost laughs; the accompanying exhale borders on disbelief. ]
I could have said 'humans'.
[ Read: "you should probably know better than to ask someone that, just in case". The faint rise of his brow as he turns to knock against a nearby door should speak volumes.
But he presses on, because even he's not terrible enough to let her keep believing that he's an axe-murderer. ]
But, no. My main directive was to destroy mutant lifeforms.
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After all, Adolf assumes that a more reasonable reaction to being told that your conversation partner is an exterminator is to find an excuse to get the hell away.
He almost laughs; the accompanying exhale borders on disbelief. ]
I could have said 'humans'.
[ Read: "you should probably know better than to ask someone that, just in case". The faint rise of his brow as he turns to knock against a nearby door should speak volumes.
But he presses on, because even he's not terrible enough to let her keep believing that he's an axe-murderer. ]
But, no. My main directive was to destroy mutant lifeforms.