You remember why you first came to this city, don't you? That's how Pleroma guests are treated if they refuse to submit.

[Or defectors who refuse to submit. Barnaby might be strung up out there with Abel and Himeka now if he had. Or perhaps just locked away forever, if it spared the Regent the embarrassment of disloyalty in their ranks becoming public knowledge.

But he did submit, and here's here now. Maybe Kotetsu can be talked into seeing things the same way, so he'll accept his attempt to stall for time for now.]

If you go before the Regent and swear to reject the Pleroma, they won't harm you. You can join our ranks, and then you can tell me everything.