The expatriate isn't sure whether the armed stranger is even listening; e demands his strife portfolio, to which he replies that he doesn't have one. He likes to think of himself as a lover, not a fighter.
The maroon says in that case what is he doing here at the site of an imminent invasion? The expatriate looks up the harpoon's chain and says he's not sure. He just feels like it's his responsibility to stop this before it's too late, since he failed to last time. And anyway, what does the maroon think e's going to do about this? E can't fight dozens of people all alone.