A snort from the opposing side."Ah... well parried, my rapier-witted friend!"

Wade, by contrast, doesn't seem like he's taking this confrontation seriously at all-- because he isn't. Oh, he's definitely not what you would call reasonable, to be sure, but there's a lot of fun to be had in taking part in a good old-fashioned banter session. Helps get the juices flowing, and all that. After all, a fight scene-- even a potential fight scene, is nothing without its rhetoric.

The mercenary doesn't relax so much as adopt a more nonchalant air to his stance, as if he were just another regular schmoe taking his katana for a walk instead of a guy who just went Vlad the Impaler on a bunch of harmless, innocent soup cans.

"That happened once, by the way. The shitting dentures thing. Bad time at McDonald's. I don't really like to talk about it."