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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[machitobaye]

Machi's impassive face didn't show whether or not he had reached any conclusion of the sort, not behind the sunglasses, though in fact he had--he had come to what was pretty much the exact same conclusion, any differences were minor, definitively personal, and entirely detail-related. He was preoccupied enough with other things, though, other thoughts--a persistent mental image of a corpse he didn't want to find or see, for example (he didn't want to think about that person at all, ever, and yet here he was), as well as an eerie image of his own corpse, which peculiarly had a large bullet hole in his imagination. He took the small "...oh," as a sign of understanding and let it go wearily, too ill to care, and feeling a small amount of exasperation at Koizumi's delay--he didn't have the English to try an explain anything, so it was a good thing the older boy had reached something. He was feeling sick still, no thanks to the joint (and obvious) conclusion.

Machi didn't doubt for a moment that there was some sort of reason, maybe some sort of twisted logic going on behind the house--it was entirely possible, to him, that there was much more than he was currently understanding... in fact, it was just about impossible for there not to be. There was plenty here, most of it horrible, and he had a couple ideas of what those could be, and even a little of why. He also knew, however, that having something to understand didn't mean that there was going to be a pattern, any chance of finding something predictable, or something tangible or worth relying on--it could, in fact, possibly make things worse as you tried to rely on what wasn't always constant, or else that which was treacherous or inapplicable.

But Koizumi's last statement was plainly insulting, as he seemed to think Machi was stupid or something worse--Machi didn't really take kindly to that (as most people did not.) He couldn't think of a way to answer in English that wasn't extremely rude, but rather than staying mute, he gave up and spoke his mind; he didn't know this person--and not only did he not know him, he really didn't care as much as he should right now. His response was blunt, flat, and entirely without manners.

"...no shit." He stared the older boy in the eye from behind the sunglasses. What kind of idiot did Koizumi take him for?