"Thank you. ... let me know what you want in payment, and I'll see what I can do. And... it does."

Not that he made a habit of carrying a sword around in public, but when exploring a monster-filled tower, some sort of weapon had been vital, and even if he'd picked up how to make use of other things (including his fists, an extremely durable deck brush and a bus stop sign), a katana remained his favorite. Though, if he were honest, what he really wanted to use to defend himself here were his personas, but he'd found himself unable to reach them or even really sense them much since arriving here, so a sword would have to do.