Indeed. Prevention is better than cure. Every place has those who will not obey laws and regulations, and not being ready for such an eventuality will leave you more the fool for it.

[He could fight without blades or projectiles. A good, solid baseball bat would do fine, if he chanced upon one. Xemnas was practical enough to eschew something more elegant when simple brute force would do.]

Hm. Very well. I am certain such things are in the vicinity, it's simply a matter of finding them. Will that suit you, then?

[Something in his voice suggests Xemnas doesn't mean the last for Riku, which is demonstrated fairly easily by the skip of small hooves and cheerful burble of a pleased blitzle.

..And yet it's a puzzle. Why is Riku of all people being so helpful? Xemnas won't refuse the aid, but it does make him wonder. Asking may well forgo such unexpected assistance, and nothing he's been told so far went contrary to simple sense or what he'd heard from others. Was it the keyblade master's method of extending an olive branch, or something else..?]

It seems my small friend and I will be doing some hunting soon, then. How peculiar, to take an equine as one might a predator..