[He'd thought he'd been blocked or deleted, in all honesty... So it's somewhat of a complicated relief that channel is still there. He shifts his scarf up a little as Rantaro's attention returns... that's right, familiarity with the situation would be a bit suspicious, wouldn't it? It's the sort of thing Shin would have suspected himself, in swift hindsight. Thankfully, Ishimaru rescues him here, to much less complicated relief.]
Exactly! Sidney and I ended up here... Ah, I don't need to tell you to be careful if your reflection moves without you.
[He watches tensely as Rantaro raps his knuckles against his own reflection... but nothing happens.]
We weren't able to get out the way we came... but we could travel elsewhere through reflective surfaces back then. Something's different for sure.
[Inaba's right in that they're kind of venturing into the unknown already, with it's attendant unnervingness... I'm going to abstract out the process of their swapping numbers to save a little time, Shin's phone returning to his pocket.]
Miss Inaba has the right of it. We just need to work together... that gives us our best chance.
[He's not Sara, he's not going to wax platitudes about how they'll all be fine and there's no way anything bad will happen; he can't even tell himself that believably. But... putting trust aside, it does help sometimes. It's... worked before.
...]
Guess the first thing is to check the room, ahaha. If we've been brought here for a reason there's probably some kind of trick to it.
[Work on certain issues... that's not a way he'd been thinking about it before. But he's highly tuned towards environments turned into puzzles and "games" by this point. Looks like Rantaro's already started on that... There's a safe here but he'd prefer not to have to brute force it off the bat... Shin himself heads over to the other side of the desk and starts looking through the drawers, though from the movement of his head he's spotted the red gleam scattered about, if not traced it's source yet.]
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[He'd thought he'd been blocked or deleted, in all honesty... So it's somewhat of a complicated relief that channel is still there. He shifts his scarf up a little as Rantaro's attention returns... that's right, familiarity with the situation would be a bit suspicious, wouldn't it? It's the sort of thing Shin would have suspected himself, in swift hindsight. Thankfully, Ishimaru rescues him here, to much less complicated relief.]
Exactly! Sidney and I ended up here... Ah, I don't need to tell you to be careful if your reflection moves without you.
[He watches tensely as Rantaro raps his knuckles against his own reflection... but nothing happens.]
We weren't able to get out the way we came... but we could travel elsewhere through reflective surfaces back then. Something's different for sure.
[Inaba's right in that they're kind of venturing into the unknown already, with it's attendant unnervingness... I'm going to abstract out the process of their swapping numbers to save a little time, Shin's phone returning to his pocket.]
Miss Inaba has the right of it. We just need to work together... that gives us our best chance.
[He's not Sara, he's not going to wax platitudes about how they'll all be fine and there's no way anything bad will happen; he can't even tell himself that believably. But... putting trust aside, it does help sometimes. It's... worked before.
...]
Guess the first thing is to check the room, ahaha. If we've been brought here for a reason there's probably some kind of trick to it.
[Work on certain issues... that's not a way he'd been thinking about it before. But he's highly tuned towards environments turned into puzzles and "games" by this point. Looks like Rantaro's already started on that... There's a safe here but he'd prefer not to have to brute force it off the bat... Shin himself heads over to the other side of the desk and starts looking through the drawers, though from the movement of his head he's spotted the red gleam scattered about, if not traced it's source yet.]