Metatrooper

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"Where do you plan on heading to exactly?" Mako asked. He was still thinking of a concrete plan about what to do, since this job had pulled a complete 180 on him. She was right though, he had no doubt that Bella would send someone to keep an eye on him, but Vex did also propose a good idea. He could claim to be using her to track down the lich, at least, he hoped that would get the Hunters off his back for a while.

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"No." Even though they were now allies, he would only tell her what she needed to know. If he said anything more it might come back to bite him in the ass.

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"No, it was an oral agreement." he told her. She had the same thoughts as him about the weapons at least, it had to had come from someone with large amounts of power, like the lich. Mako was caught by surprise again as she mentioned the true nature of the lich. Someone who was somewhere they didn't belong, just like him. "Anything else you want to ask?"

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"1000 platinum coins, a third of which are already in my account, and a cache of unusually high-tech weapons." He told Vex.

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The mercenary had no ill will towards the girl. After all, this was just business to him. But now it just got personal, he had an actual chance at finding a way home, and this girl, Vex, could lead him to it. After she introduced herself, he replied: "Mako, Mako Te."

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"Lying to get me to do a job for you is dishonourable. I'm not obligated to do anything for you if you don't even tell me the truth about what I'm doing." This was part of his code when accepting jobs. He wouldn't accept if any part of the job went against his own personal code. Plus, the girl could help him with his own personal mission. "So, what'll it be?"

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"I see." The mercenary said blankly, seemingly deep in thought. It seems that the lich is quite a powerful entity, and is also probably how Bella got the unusually high-tech weapons. Trying to gain favour with Bella by doing more jobs for her would be a slow and difficult task. Plus, she probably wouldn't give tech that advanced to someone like him, preferring to use it to further her own self-interests. The armored man stood still and contemplated for a minute or two, all the while staying unmoving and silent on the outside. He then snapped back into reality as he put his pistol away and asked the girl, "How would you like your own bodyguard?"

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The mercenary tensed up and readied to pull the trigger as he saw her arm reach into her bag, only to relax as she pulled out a bottle. What the girl was saying did make sense at least, it would explain why his client was acting that way. "If what you say is true, then why did she hire me to kill the lich as well?"

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Taking off her handcuffs does sound like a bad idea, however, she has already shown that she is capable of moving objects without using her hands, and if she could kill or hurt him, she probably would have already done so. Nevertheless, you could never be too careful around others. As he went to remove the cuffs, the mercenary also pulled out a pistol from his holster and pointed it at her. It beared some resemblance to ordinary firearms but was also something Vex had never seen before.

The mercenary's pistol

"Alright, now talk."

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"You can do the next best thing then, tell me more about Bella and the lich. Who are they? How much power do they have? Anything that might be useful to me. If you do so, I might just consider letting you go." The armored man had actually hoped that she had some way of telling the truth, it would make everything easier for him. Alas, the best thing he could do know was squeeze as much info from her as he could. Who knows? She might even persuade him to turn against Bella.