R wasn't sure he saw the difference between a soldier and a warrior. Protector, though. He liked the sound of it. It sounded like something from the past, before....before things like him. Protector struck him as noble, somehow.

"Don't...have one," R mumbled. Compared to "protector", he thought "unemployed corpse" sounded even worse than usual. He hurried to add more. "Like to collect. Stuff?"