[Fortunately, that information isn't a surprise to him. Even so, it sends another jolt of helpless frustration through his chest. Whatever this is, the ones he loves most have been pulled into it as well. All because Makoto decided to go for a cowardly kill.]

I saw that Himeka and Abel were touched by it as well. She... showed me what was said, after my senses had failed me. How it now believes you sworn to it, somehow.

[It doesn't sound like something he's willing to give into.]