Animal or Vegetable? [Incomplete, Closed]

[machitobaye]

Characters: Machi Tobaye, Itsuki Koizumi
Setting: Catacombs, Morgue
Time: Day 003, Unknown Afternoon
Summary: Machi finds a morgue, Koizumi finds a morgue, Raile does some backlog because it's been bugging the HELL out of him.
Warnings: Some creepiness.

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[facetooclose]

The answer was still skeptical, but Koizumi was willing to let it slide. Particularly since bringing up the bodies made Machi seem uncomfortable. Which was ironic, considering that he was the first to be down here inspecting them. But it was a topic worthy of consideration, since it was one more unexplained mystery.
"From before? That's an interesting thought. But if it were from before, that would mean that the house periodically unbuilds itself and then rebuilds itself. Hmm- that's actually a fascinating idea. So if this house is in a cycle, what happens to the residents at the end of it?"
The obvious answer hit him as soon as the words left his mouth; they were, after all, standing in a morgue.
"....Oh," he said in a small voice. But he didn't expand on that; if Machi was intelligent enough to reach the same conclusion, there was no use in stating it for him. If he wasn't, then there was no use in scaring him.

But this blind acceptance of the house and the way it was? That was not acceptable. There was method even in madness. There was always a pattern or logic to things, even if they appeared wild and inexplicable. And Koizumi thought it was always worth trying to understand out the logic, especially if it had him trapped and in danger. He simply didn't understand how you could be thrown into this situation and not try to do something about it.
But he couldn't say all that in simple easily understood Japanese.
"Even the house has logic to it," he said instead. "We just don't understand it yet."