Well, now that he's been caught, this is kind of embarrassing, and Dimitri's shoulder shift upwards a little bit, tense. Still, he knows he does have to answer.

"It is... Well, I hope to reassure myself. For the most part." It makes him feel less passive, although he doesn't always know if that's an actual truth or not when it comes to things like this. "Of course, conventional weaponry does not always work here in these lands, even when they do not spontaneously break... But sometimes it is good to have."