There's the iconic image in movies of some gobsmacked, glasses-wearing character in disbelief taking off their glasses to see if what they just saw really happened. Akito, however, was near blind without his glasses and that wouldn't erase the fact not only had there been a giant rodent talking and attacking them just now but that it blew up into a convenient dust cloud rather than just becoming a corpse.
Akito coughed, accidentally inhaling some of the dust, spreading more dust with every cough. "Is-" cough, "everyone alright?" Cough. He swiped at his glasses with his sleeves, trying to see.
In the rat explosion, however, a scroll hit the the dust covered floor, barely noticeable from the dust cloud and cushioned slightly from the dust.
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There's the iconic image in movies of some gobsmacked, glasses-wearing character in disbelief taking off their glasses to see if what they just saw really happened. Akito, however, was near blind without his glasses and that wouldn't erase the fact not only had there been a giant rodent talking and attacking them just now but that it blew up into a convenient dust cloud rather than just becoming a corpse.
Akito coughed, accidentally inhaling some of the dust, spreading more dust with every cough. "Is-" cough, "everyone alright?" Cough. He swiped at his glasses with his sleeves, trying to see.
In the rat explosion, however, a scroll hit the the dust covered floor, barely noticeable from the dust cloud and cushioned slightly from the dust.