[ he does let him, although he bristles at what gamzee says. ]

No, you ass chomping douche, you aren't. I called Eridan out and antagonized him despite what you'd been trying to beat through my thick skull for the past two months that, oh, Eridan is a murdering shithead and provoking him might not be the most amazing idea you've ever had, maybe you should stop screaming at your problems until they shrivel up out of the second hand embarrassment of being associated with such a mentally deficient evolutionary hiccup, or turn around and blast a hole through your torso because you're trying to talk sense into them, like that wasn't a complete waste of fucking time from the start, why would you ever even entertain the notion that you two used to be friends or something equally revolting like that! Surprise, Vantas, just because you're too much of an underdeveloped jellyspined grubfucker to shank a bitch doesn't mean every other troll is! You couldn't stop him from killing your friends, what made you think you could stop him from wrecking your considerably more worthless shit?

[ not even addressing gamzee at this point. DON'T MIND HIM HE IS JUST TALKING TO HIMSELF AGAIN. ]