Wouldn't they have chased us out then instead of... potentially locking us in?

[ Though Shouma is supposedly the smarter one of them, so maybe he has a point? But the NPCs all already had their chocolate, so they wouldn't need the kitchen, right? ]

There are none of them in here now, so can't we just continue and pretend this never happened?

[ Not that he is going to stop feeling kind of panicked for a while. Still, he won't even let knife-wielding NPCs get between them now. Also he just really doesn't want to go out and face any of them. ]