Discovery?! The disciplinarians discern enigmas?

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Who: Takeo and Tsuchi
Where: The Disciplinary Committee Room
What: Reading the scroll Mitsuya dropped here
When: After this thread.



Takeo had a bandage around the wound on his arm. He had made a point of cleaning up, because even when wounded he wanted to look dignified. "Alright," he'd said, as soon as he'd finished putting a safety pin on his sleeve to hold it up, nice and tidy. "Let's see what this is all about then."

He opened the scroll, and to his shock and surprise, words appeared on it-- literally manifesting as the blank paper was exposed, in a burst of purple flame that left behind inked text. It urged him, however, to say in awed tones: "Utazawa, come look at this...."

HELLO,
YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE SCROLL OF SWIFT INITIATION

Before Takeo could finish taking in what was before him, he felt as if he had been punched in the face, and the mysteries arcane being revealed to him.

He also shouted: "MOTHER FUDGECAKE!" because while most people would shout some obscenity when surprised by a punch, Takeo knew that, in his position as head disciplinarian, someone was bound to punch him eventually, so he'd been practicing.

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Tsuchi laughed and rolled his head sideways a little.

"You'll enjoy that, no doubt." He looked bemused at the thought. "I had no clue you were into that sort of thing."

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"I like living in fantasy," Takeo replied without much hesitation, but without looking back at Tsuchi. "I was already a resident in that wonderful place even before it became a refuge from the unhappier times. It's a nice place... it's where the idea of justice comes from, after all."

He finally turned about to face Tsuchi. "But if you mean turning people into frogs... yes, that too. I mean, don't you ever wake up in the morning feeling" he shuffled, as if embarrassed or as if he were about to say 'not so fresh', "like someone should be a squatting amphibian?"

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"Well," Tsuchi began speaking, whitening his cheeks, "there's some people I'd aim such things at."

Nothing else was said then, or even for a while. Until Tsuchi took a hold of his nerves.

"And some I'd protect against it, but let's not talk about that," he added.

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Takeo's eyes lingered on Tsuchi for a moment. His lazy gaze was a bit hard to read. Was that acknowledgment or gratitude?

In any case, he nodded. "Well, there's only one course of action now, one thing to do... Quickly, Utazawa!" he clapped his hands before himself, "To the-- to the bookstore!"