[He laughs.] How lewd. I thought you wanted me for my Kat, but it's actually my body, isn't it?

[He stabs his finger with the pin, though, and then reaches forward to smear the drop of blood on the Aldnoah Drive at their feet. Surprise, it glows, and everything in the cockpit just powers up in a whirr of muted machinery and beautiful engineering. The screens glaze out to show the hangar interior around them.]

Some Terran friend of the princess figured out how she can distribute the Aldnoah activation ability temporarily. [Although he had to kiss her. He hadn't been sure if he was going to get murdered for daring to insist on having to go back, regardless of her busy schedule. But in the end, this had been the compromise she was willing to give him.]