Intimidation factor max: success! Cao Pi makes a completely exasperated face, since he can't blame someone for thinking that's the right solution. It would be...if his tablet hadn't been in the church.

"I would not have gotten that message," he says flatly. "My tablet was among the things pilfered from my room and my person. Not that you could have known that, but..." Eyes down to the blade and back up again. "Are you going to just stand there and hold it all day?"