An archive? [He hasn't been keeping much eye on the posted messages, not after his own ill-fated run-in with EMBER, but he frowns as he retrieves his phone, thumbing down the page... aha. The stream of unfamiliar names/pseudonyms looks like word soup right now, and he'd normally like to dig into a backlog the moment he sees it, but. For once, he refrains.]
[Phone tucked away again, Minakami just. Sighs, with a shake of his head. Whether that's at the prospect of acquiescing to the Department of the Enma's enigmatic authority, or the implications of everything said really starting to filter in, or simply the slow-growing headache he is starting to identify as coming from the haniwa, or all of the above.]
Ah, well. The best of a bad situation. If we don't run into one of their people, Tama or I can find...
[He trails off at Matoba's binding of the sculpture; he does recognize the intonation, but certainly not its very visible effects. It's not that he disbelieves such things are possible (the opposite, even) -- but any commentary or genuine interest he would have, is derailed at Tamamori's comment. Even as sauced as he's been through half of this conversation, he can't bring himself to direct his annoyance at his friend. Instead he just mutters:]
...The hashihime isn't there to be used like a tool. It's a curse.
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[Phone tucked away again, Minakami just. Sighs, with a shake of his head. Whether that's at the prospect of acquiescing to the Department of the Enma's enigmatic authority, or the implications of everything said really starting to filter in, or simply the slow-growing headache he is starting to identify as coming from the haniwa, or all of the above.]
Ah, well. The best of a bad situation. If we don't run into one of their people, Tama or I can find...
[He trails off at Matoba's binding of the sculpture; he does recognize the intonation, but certainly not its very visible effects. It's not that he disbelieves such things are possible (the opposite, even) -- but any commentary or genuine interest he would have, is derailed at Tamamori's comment. Even as sauced as he's been through half of this conversation, he can't bring himself to direct his annoyance at his friend. Instead he just mutters:]
...The hashihime isn't there to be used like a tool. It's a curse.