Toudou Heisuke

[Forget jumping. Tatsunosuke is out the door at the first spark. He doesn't go too far though, rejoining Yamanami after the other man asks his question.]

Maybe we can distract him and hide the hotbox before something really bad happens... [Said so only Yamanami can hear, of course.]

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As far as is necessary. Once I have contact with one spirit, the others should be easier.

[He takes the bowl out and inspects the black spot on it, then puts it into the sink. Time to put a larger metal bowl into the hot box and set it for a minute.]

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[Sannan blanches when he thinks of what Heisuke could do for the other spirits, particularly the fire one.] A-alright.

[whispered back to Tatsu] Maybe...how heavy do you think it is?

[He looks back at the hotbox and makes a sort of strangled ~~shriek~~ noise when he sees that Heisuke already has a larger bowl in -- and that they have an impressive lightning storm going as well.]

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[They have to survive the wrath of the lightning spirit before Heisuke can get them killed with the others. Or so Tatsu's logic goes.]

It doesn't look that heavy...

[Oh crap, too late. Tatsu doesn't run out of the room again at least? But he does have his back pressed against the wall farthest from the hotbox.]

Are you sure it's not getting angry in there, Toudou-san?

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It isn't smoking.

[And he's completely serious about that. It can't be angry if it isn't smoking. He sits and watches the lightning for a bit and then looks to the counter.]

...Wonder if these would make larger sparks.

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[again aside to Tatsu, urgently] The problem is I can't think of anything to distract him with, at least not the...the way he is right now. If Nagakura-kun or Harada-kun were here, maybe.

[Anyone other than him and Tatsu, actually.]

I don't think we need to see larger ones.

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Then maybe we should quit while we're ahead. [Before the spirit gets angry and wants to destroy them all.]

...I don't know either. [Tatsu lowers his voice again, though he can't help but agree with Yamanami on their ineffectiveness to be distracting. And just why is Heisuke acting so oddly anyway?

There's no time to think about it though. Not before the phrase "bigger sparks" enters the conversation.]

No, Yamanami-san's right. We should be happy with small sparks! It's generous of the spirit to show us that much, isn't it?

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........ [He hears you guys whispering behind his back, but he is more interested in the experiment right now. Instead, he removes the smaller bowl and takes out a bigger one, turning it over in his hands.] .................................

What if it's trying to speak and we aren't giving it a large enough vessel? That sounds right, doesn't it? "Vessel." Like they say at the shrines.

[Look at bowl, look at box, back to bowl. Bowl goes into box. He closes the door and starts pressing buttons to set the time.]

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[pained whisper] But we can't just leave him here by himself! [As dangerous as this is, Sannan is more terrified of the idea of Heisuke lighting himself on fire and no one being around to help him in time.]

I don't think that's the...I really don't think that's the case.

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[More whispering. Who cares if Heisuke knows about it?] Then we can drag him away? And maybe lock him in a closet until he stops doing crazy things!

...Or. Crazy things like this.

[Oh crap, there's more beeps.]

Toudou-san please! We're just mere humans. It's not our place to try and assume what the spirits want. Really, you should just leave it be!

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[He looks back over his shoulder at the two of them, stone-faced like he's been since the experiment started.]

That's why I'm trying to talk to them. It'll let me know when we've gone too far.

[He presses the start button and after a few seconds, electricity arcs again and Heisuke looks back at it.]

....Interesting.

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