Atem's fingers twitch but his duel disk and millennium necklace is gone, leaving him powerless. He's never been talked to this way, of course. Maybe when he was sharing a body with Yugi but that was different -- he didn't even know who he was then.

The defiance doesn't really leave his features at all and he has enough self-control not to say the first words that come to mind. He exhales slowly.

"And if I bend to your will then will you take just me and leave the rest of the people of my land free?"