"Yeah... I should probably explain this..."
"You see, a few months ago, I was in another town when he showed up. While he was there, he killed an innocent couple for no reason, and he would have killed their child- a young girl- but I shot him in the... um... rear end..."
Joseph puased for a moment and stared at the sky, then continued reluctantly.
"Well anyway, it ticked him off and he went after me. We dueled each other for a while, and I ended up getting hurt in, strangely enough, the same shoulder I scraped earlier when we got attacked by squid. But soon after that, he took a swing at me and accidently knocked this thing over." He tapped on the container. "It sucked his soul out and caused his body to evaporate. However, I knew that those frinks in the navy would picture it differently, so I got on the next boat out of there and went to the town from which you picked me up."
He offered the soul to Dominic. "You need it more than I do. I was just using it to read in the dark, it's not good for much else..."