Romeo was satisfied for the moment as he took a step back and to the side closer to Krista. He could understand what would drive anyone to do what they did. This was not the man eating a sunday, this was the man of loss he could follow orders from, not some child-killing data-miner. When the other drew the knife to attack, he made a soft lunge forward. Not to attack or protect, but to get a better view of the play out. 

When the knife fell, Ramirez took a ste to the side, the dagger disappearing in the folds of the cloth as he took a step back as Mai stepped forward. Perhaps this professor had more in common with them than he would care to admit. His brother had attempted cybernetics on order to increase the synchronization rates, he had settled for paralytic synaptic conversion. A shift in his robes, and the youngest was handling the blade now as he pondered it and the chainsaw sword to make for his own.