All the gods here willing he won't have to see firsthand what the officer is capable of then. For as waifish as he looks Katsuya Suou is no slouch on the battlefield. It's not his preferred place to be however, which is why he's organizing and dutifully trying to protect others first and foremost.

He only glimpses at Steve up and down once to understand what the soldier means by that. Katsuya nods. "If our reports are correct, we may well need it."

At the comment about the cold, Katsuya looks around at all of them gathered in this place. His expression is distant for a moment before he sighs.

"It hasn't bothered me at all for the past few years. I rather enjoy it even." He runs hotter than others these days. "But this....calamity, civilization crumbling, this I have seen before. If we don't put up even the guise of command and control the people will dissolve into chaos and panic."