...Aoi definitely needs discipline, that much is for certain.

[Said exactly like the old man he is, though there's a fondness to it.]

Or by giving them a reason to hate, and thus pushing them towards determination. We are both well-liked enough that either of our deaths should make them take it seriously.

Call.

If I survive...I intend to be such a villain, as I said before. Hatred and spite is one of the great motivators, and if they can solve it...

....Well. Perhaps I'm merely being arrogant, but I wish to believe it would give them a greater chance against our captor himself, having already faced down one embodiment of Evil.