Thanks Gladio, he was glad you at least thought he wasn't scum. However he was trying to pay attention to the man in front of him who, while looked thoroughly kicked through, seemed on the verge of doing something.

"What, you mean you can't?" Noct asked, turning his head in a cocky move that resulted in the guy letting out an inarticulate shout and leaping on Noct.

To his credit, all his self defense training kicked in and flipped Noct on top as they tumbled to the ground, though the prince didn't actually want to hurt the guy, hesitating with striking out with the knife.

The authorities had already started shouting in the background, scrambling towards the fight that had broken out. Noct got a blow to the side of his face before returning it with twisting the guy's wrist hard enough to almost break it.