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[In theory, Sio was trying to just think this at Hijikata, but she's kind of bad at the focus thing when she's actually freaking out a bit. So. Hi everyone.]

H-Hijikata-sama... I'm in Greengard with Souji-san. Your Souji-san. A-and think we've got a problem...

Something's really really wrong with him. He's acting super weird, um, I mean, more weird than before, and scary, I mean, different-scary... we're here with Fang-san and we're in this spooky forest and I don't know why he wanted us to come here but I think there's zombie unicorns and that's kind of freaking me out.

I know he's an Infiltrator now b-but... do we... do anything?

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[NO ONE KNOWS OKAY. Least of all Sio. She just knows she's in a spooky forest with a spooky samurai. Why her even.]

I really wanna get out of this place but he won't go back...

[That's not helpful at all, lady.]

Okay...

Well, Okita's stubborn, so telling him to do something will probably get the opposite of what you want, so you'd probably want to give him a better reason for getting out of...wherever you are. Oh, and if he has a sword on him, stay out of his way, because he kinda likes -

[...And then it hits him. Okita isn't investigating like they are. Maybe he's not exactly the same. But what he's like right now, Ibuki has no idea because he hasn't seen him this entire jaunt.

Son of a bitch, this just got more complicated.]

Well, just...don't provoke him.

[This is going so well, isn't it.]

[HEY YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING HER]

Um, he likes to...?

[She thinks she knows. The 'don't provoke him' bit kind of gives it away, plus him being Okita Souji and all. The implied threat makes her a bit mad, though. So what if he's Okita Souji. She's Oda Nobunaga.]

I won't let him hurt Fang-san. O-or anyone.

[This is a two-way street, you know. He can't help you unless you help him and all.]

Um. You know. Stab...things...

[Because that's not disconcerting at all.]

But how are you going to stop him if he gets in one of those moods, huh?

W-well, um... I have a gun. Actually.

[That's kind of an understatement. She has a huge-ass gatling gun that pretty much shoots cannonballs. And boy is she not afraid to use it.]

[...What.]

So you'd...so you'd just kill him?!

[Not that Ibuki is entirely convinced that Okita could get killed that easily, but it's still a thought he doesn't like. At all.]

I-it's not that I want to! But if he dies then, he'll just reappear in Liminal Space, right? But, if he kills someone else here who isn't a Traveller... then they'd really be dead.

[It seems pretty clear to her, really.]

So what? You'd still kill him!

[Yeah, that all does make a certain amount of sense, but now Ibuki is upset and logic is not at the top of his priority list.]

It's not killing if he doesn't actually die!

[She is very particular on this point okay. She's a hero. No killing no matter how big the gun is.]

Except that he would, even if it was just temporary! Besides, if you did do it, who's to say he wouldn't be pissed at you later? Okita's not exactly the forgiving type.

[Dammit dammit dammit just don't shoot him at all.]

[Okay that is something she hadn't thought of. Yikes.]

Y - you think he'll go after me when the Jaunt is - but, we're a team! I'm only doing this to protect the others!

[Yes, good, listen to Okita's sometimes successful conscience.]

Well, figure out another option so you won't have to find out first-hand what he'd do.

[And she was so set on hero-worshipping you guys...]

Does he... uhh... is there anything that always calms him down? Like a... song or... something?

[Look, dude, shooting people is what she does. It is what she is qualified for. And that is the very opposite of not provoking people. So excuse her if she doesn't have the first idea what another option might entail.]

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