He lowers the Evoker. "... I don't know. I asked Chidori at one point... she said something about it having to do with the thing that gave people Persona in the first place. Something to do with Death itself. So..." Guns, death imagery. He kind of gets it.

"We all have to do it. Even Koromaru does, though his Evoker doesn't look like a gun, it's part of his collar." ... "He's a dog."