I'm a soldier. [He responds without missing a beat, for the fact is plain and true. But it isn't specific, and 9S only takes a brief pause before he amends, hopping over a fallen tree] Scanner units like me aren't really intended for heavy combat, but scouting the field's our usual role.

[He had modified himself, of course, that he might defend himself. But most Scanner units did not have an active Near-Field Combat System the way those intended for the rigors of battle were]

A lot was lost over time, before Scanner models were even developed, so there're ruins and ancient relics we're expected to make some sense of. Gathering data on enemy formations, also. So basically, this is my intended use.