Your target was this ship, but with what aim? [Alucard's keen eyes peer from around the blood apparatuses.] What would you have done if this ship was truly empty, if it was naught but wood and technology, if I wasn't aboard it?

[Alucard knows his father. Alucard knows the company his father keeps. It was a bad plan.]

I was set here and permitted to remain for a reason. Consider that before you do something foolish.

[Alucard knows that in the next few moments, he will have to react. Defend himself. But before that happens, it feels only proper to give Hector a chance to back down off this ledge. He seems ill suited for the work that's about to come.