[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"Ken'ichi, wait! You would get in trouble for not bringing her, right? Are you willing to take the punishment for coming back empty-handed?" he was concerned. If anything, the order hinted that something severe was waiting for them, otherwise Ken'ichi probably wouldn't have tried to help them at all. And, the punishment probably would have been delivered to Ken'ichi for failing, "You can't possibly go back there either. Why don't you come with us?"