If I had to, but I knew it probably wasn't gonna work. I was gonna try to draw the cat out. We never needed to wait for the vote for that to happen. And once it showed up...I would have threatened it, bargained with it, anything. I would have paid any price that it needed to save my home. [Including the lives of anyone in the building. No point in hiding that now that it's too late, and anyway, while Kouha would have liked to avoid killing as many people as he could, it's not something he would have felt that guilty about. Not when what he was getting in return was so high.]