The absolute fool. He already knows his touch makes women into quivering messes that favors him and grows attachment to him. Why did he not take the moment to cup a feel and get her enamored with him.
We're going the roundabout way, very much so unnecessarily, because he's not doing that. And he's already aware that he's in a death trap situation where he absolutely needs to convert as many people of authority on his side because as a man in this world he has zero rights.