I don't think threatening them without context will help anyone. We don't know what Howl did exactly to incur consequences like this. We don't know what he's undergoing right now. We don't know how he'll be, once he returns.

[Then there's Xishen's take over the whole thing, based after her understanding of the Regent. Should she even bring that up?

Or in other words, know which part, exactly? There's a lot they could unpack from this, starting from the top.]