[At least he's reading them. Or skimming them.]

Ha! No original questions, huh? How about this, then? How much of that nana power of yours is located in your soul? And what would happen if someone were to, say... remove it?

[it's a bluff. Probably. There's something different about the souls here, maybe even different enough that his usual magic won't work. Still, with the chance of a MASSIVE boost in power shoving pamphlets at him, it seems worth giving it a shot.]