He looks a little confused at the headband, but it doesn't seem to spark a massive revelation. "Thank you — Infester? Architect?"

He is WEARING a HOLY SYMBOL but at least he didn't go for "Chosen". Do the Deskarites really go around calling each other "Infester", that's awful - focus. Timing. Buffs and then -

"Protection from Evil."

Blink blink blink blink blink.

"—You're not cultists disguised as crusader clerics. You're just... crusader clerics." Fuck. He told a bunch of crusaders that he would serve Deskari and Baphomet if they let him live. He is incredibly dead.

"The spell will only suppress your enchantments for a few minutes. I do not think you will be Judged too harshly for what you did while enchanted but you may wish to use some of that time to attempt a brisk repentance. Is there anything else we need to know?"

"Um. What do you already know. —Please don't kill me, I didn't mean to help the demon cultists, I just thought they were crusaders, I won't do it again."

"This spell will only suppress your enchantments for a few minutes," Blai repeats. "I am aware that it is not something you chose to do of your uncontaminated will but that does not make it cheap to fix."

"I could swear to obey you no matter what, even if I think you're a demon cultist?"

"I don't think that's a good idea. Can you tell us anything you haven't already about how you were enchanted to begin with?"

"Um. Let me think. When I joined the cultists, that I thought were crusaders, I had already been thinking for a while that a lot of people in the 'crusaders' were actually working for the demons. Except — some of my reasons made sense, but when I think back to it some of them feel stupid? And I felt so confident, and I don't know why, so maybe that was enchantment. Or maybe I was just being stupid." Like when they told him they were wearing demon symbols so the secret demon cultists would think they were on their side. Why did he believe that. Fuck. "And then I'd met this cute girl, Kaja, and she explained it, and it just — made sense? And she told me I was clever for noticing, and she said she could introduce me to some people who had figured it out too, and—" Fuck. The supplies he was diverting — fuck. "And I was afraid to help them at first but eventually I decided, what kind of man would I be if I didn't fight back against the demons just because it was scary. And some of them were assholes but some of them felt so trustworthy — probably they were magicking me. And when the city fell everything was really confusing, but they didn't have me in the streets, and eventually they told me we needed to run, the cultists had beaten us back, so I did."