Down to you — whatever gives you more joy.

If you want to go midway on this, you could also invoke the bandits' piglet and say it's trotting Subaru's innocuous possessions around in its friendly snout, always just out of reach, until the critical moment.

But really, whatever you prefer. As long as it's not sharp or blatantly a weapon, it wouldn't really be confiscated. You're not dealing with a sophisticated villain force here. Their safe-guarding mechanism is a batalion of giant feral pigs.