"...From the way you're dressed, I'm pretty sure we're in the same line of work, or something close to it." Probably not a child soldier in a religious military, but, really, he can't find out without asking. There's a slight softening of the redhead's expression, not quite a smile but a release of tension all the same.

Rather than going to retrieve his sword, he offers a hand. "Asch. Formerly Oracle Knights Special Operations, not that that's likely to mean much." The Special Operations part might, at least, be easy enough to understand.