[Oh. Well then, just say the magic words, why don't you.]

You'd have a bit more success with a better tool than that. And some help, mayhap.

[He's back to wearing his long white gunbreaker coat today, and with the way it hangs, it pretty easily disguises what his next movement entails — reaching beneath the tails to either side of his hips, and producing a pair of surprisingly ornate daggers, one of which he flips easily around and offers the handle to Lu Bixing.]

Here. He won't like the necessity, but I'm sure he'll appreciate the practical ramifications. To say nothing of the fact that my back will be obliged to not have to carry him around anymore.

[literally no one made him do that and he would keep doing it anyway but go off i guess]