Cain wasn't about to back off and just let Abel beat up someone who had done nothing to them, even if there was the strong likelihood he was just a programmed set of binary numbers.

Swimming over to Suzaku, ignoring both of them, he grasped the other man's arm and started to pull him out of reach of Abel's booted foot.

"I'm not the one who should step back here; both of you, calm down and think this through, violence never solves anything."