So Malicant's pun love response actually manage to tip Sei over into "fuck that guy in particular", but he doesn't know if he can force some of his warping back to help bring in new foreigners. He will offer to try and probably get himself hurt trying in the process.

Failing that, he will suggest to Evandau that some sort of decoy or bait be kept in the palace, and is willing to put his own hard-to-kill ass on the line, to flush the killer out.