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Giyuu had been under the impression that he was dreaming— but apparently not. None of this gigantic, rather Western-looking mansion with furnished marble surfaces, none of it is a lucid dream. It's all real. Somehow.
Is this a Blood Demon Art?
Probably not... he can't feel any signs of a demon...
Kochou Shinobu sips on something— is that tea, okay fair enough, if someone is daring enough to drink tea they've found in a suspicious place, it would be their local poisons expert— sitting upon the kitchen island on a chair that's much too tall for her to practically get on or off. Why are all the chairs so tall? He supposes it might make sense— the floors are white stone rather than wood or tatami, so it would be cold to sit upon it.
"Are you done gawking, perhaps?" Shinobu asks, her voice suave and— annoyed, perhaps? It's a rare hint of an emotion aside from her usual cheerful mystique.
Giyuu feels rather affronted.
"I do not gawk."
Shinobu sips on her tea. "Yes you do."
"I do not."
"Oh my! Tomioka-san, you don't know that you gawk! I'm so sorry, I wasn't aware that no one had ever told you before," she lilts into that tone again. The tone that always makes fun of him without making fun of him but it's definitely making fun of him (but either way Giyuu gets too confused to even be offended,) "it makes you look so much like a country bumpkin. I had thought you were aware and were doing it regardless... I suppose you are just a country bumpkin then... I am so sorry."
"I do not gawk," Giyuu insists, already exhausted from this encounter.
Where even am I? He wants to ask. Shinobu doesn't seem as baffled and out of place as he feels, but it's her, so one can never quite be sure.
"Unfortunately, we've found no exits thus far," Shinobu finally reports the important information, because of course she has all the time in the world. "You're free to try kicking the walls and screaming, but Shinazugawa-san already did the honours."
Giyuu hinges onto the 'we' and the 'Shinazugawa is here?' both at once and promptly forgets how to articulate any manner of sentences at all.
He settles on a very eloquent, "what?"
"He tired himself out and found a bed so he went to sleep. Apparently he's been all-nighters recently and he was very irritable today. Don't go near him, I hope for a little longer of peace and quiet."
