He opens his mouth to reply that he doesn't carry anything that could permanently harm a human, let alone a cybernetic mutant (who on top of everything else doesn't appear to have any glass parts he could mess with,) but he's cut short by the monster suddenly charging at them at high speed.

He doesn't have the time to think. He quickly produces a smoke bomb out of his sleeve and throws it at the floor, before pulling Miko's arm once again and bolting towards the back of the alley. This should give them some time to come up with a better strategy, preferably one that involves the civilian girl getting to safety and himself bravely defeating his opponent through cunning and daring moves so it doesn't attack anyone ever again. He can still hear the creature's footsteps, but they seem to have slowed down - whatever it is, it doesn't appear to be especially intelligent.

Or it's intelligent enough to know not to rush into a wall of smoke, which is a prospect Eusine finds slightly more worrying. He does have a tendency to mix his smoke bombs with a sleeping agent, but it's not exactly as viable a strategy when you only have one gas mask for two.

"What about you? Do you have any powers?!" he can't help but ask, as they run along the smoke-filled alley. She said she was a journalist, but it's not like there are any laws preventing superpowered people from having boring normal jobs.