Souji would do the same if it was the other way around. And whoever was out there being victimized would be pissed to see the other running all the way out there if it's as bad as this door sealing is suggesting.
Neither of them would care, either. So it's really just an accepted fact of how it works. The thing is that if they fail again because they are heeding this random message, will next time it actually be one of them out there?
There's the sound of his boot heel scuffing against the ground as he fidgets, letting his leg idly kick against the ground while he considers Hijikata's words and observes the door and all it's added 'decorations' from where he stands behind him.
"Those things aren't going to provide that much more strength to the door if it's an attempt to reinforce it. Wouldn't they have been better off piling things in here against the door if they could be moved around, instead?" Souji tilts his head slightly, his express remaining neutral. "Nothing's beating at the door, so I would assume our hiding spot is still hidden. Would any of that reduce the smell of us to a predator if it were like a dog or wolf?" He's not exactly sure, he's never really had to consider things with sense of smell with animals in his years but Hijkata's been around in his travels before he joined the dojo way back when, so he may have some experience with things like that. "...Or maybe the light?" He questions curiously, more to himself as he glances up, the thought passing suddenly through his mind.
However, it's all speculation, but it's obvious whoever did this spent a long time jamming things between the door. His eyes narrow slightly as he stares at the message once more from over Hijikata's shoulder.
". . .Or, maybe the extras aren't to try and further keep anything out, but to keep us in? We can get out relatively easy, but there's so many random pieces, it would cause an added delay to remove all of them. An attempted backup to make us 'wait' as suggested—wait long enough, for whatever it is they want us to wait for. The writer responsible makes it sound like they are not very confident we'd believe them when reading this. But, if that's so, wouldn't it have been common sense to write more detail in a message about what's going on instead of waste time? If we did this because we knew we were going to make the same mistake all over again and not remember, you'd think we would have been considerate enough to our-future-selves to at least provide the information we knew we would not have when seeing this."
Apparently, their past selves are a bunch of traumatized idiots too busy freaking out to bother to communicate to try and stop it from happening again. He wonders briefly if their past selves thought similar of their past self previously. In that case, Souji will at least be interested to know what it is that will change his opinion on this to be okay with a vague and ultimately useless warning being left, even if he's not the writer.
( he wouldn't have let someone leave that message thinking as he is. something must have changed his mind; or he never made it back with the ones that had the chance to return and write this. )
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Neither of them would care, either. So it's really just an accepted fact of how it works. The thing is that if they fail again because they are heeding this random message, will next time it actually be one of them out there?
There's the sound of his boot heel scuffing against the ground as he fidgets, letting his leg idly kick against the ground while he considers Hijikata's words and observes the door and all it's added 'decorations' from where he stands behind him.
"Those things aren't going to provide that much more strength to the door if it's an attempt to reinforce it. Wouldn't they have been better off piling things in here against the door if they could be moved around, instead?" Souji tilts his head slightly, his express remaining neutral. "Nothing's beating at the door, so I would assume our hiding spot is still hidden. Would any of that reduce the smell of us to a predator if it were like a dog or wolf?" He's not exactly sure, he's never really had to consider things with sense of smell with animals in his years but Hijkata's been around in his travels before he joined the dojo way back when, so he may have some experience with things like that. "...Or maybe the light?" He questions curiously, more to himself as he glances up, the thought passing suddenly through his mind.
However, it's all speculation, but it's obvious whoever did this spent a long time jamming things between the door. His eyes narrow slightly as he stares at the message once more from over Hijikata's shoulder.
". . .Or, maybe the extras aren't to try and further keep anything out, but to keep us in? We can get out relatively easy, but there's so many random pieces, it would cause an added delay to remove all of them. An attempted backup to make us 'wait' as suggested—wait long enough, for whatever it is they want us to wait for. The writer responsible makes it sound like they are not very confident we'd believe them when reading this. But, if that's so, wouldn't it have been common sense to write more detail in a message about what's going on instead of waste time? If we did this because we knew we were going to make the same mistake all over again and not remember, you'd think we would have been considerate enough to our-future-selves to at least provide the information we knew we would not have when seeing this."
Apparently, their past selves are a bunch of traumatized idiots too busy freaking out to bother to communicate to try and stop it from happening again. He wonders briefly if their past selves thought similar of their past self previously. In that case, Souji will at least be interested to know what it is that will change his opinion on this to be okay with a vague and ultimately useless warning being left, even if he's not the writer.
( he wouldn't have let someone leave that message thinking as he is. something must have changed his mind; or he never made it back with the ones that had the chance to return and write this. )