Acht's Japanese has completely left him; he can barely find words in German. He leans over gently steaming motorcycle and tips up the priest's chin with a fingertip.

For a moment, he sees another face--a heroic spirit's saintly face, all anguished betrayal as the blade pierced him through. If he does not kill the priest at once, perhaps this is the reason.

If Larasviel couldn't bring herself to kill him, perhaps this was a reason.

"Stay--stay out of the forest," he says instead. Some of it might be Italian, some of it German; the translation spell accounts for it and renders it intelligible. "Stay away from the girl."