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It was getting harder to gauge distance. Thunder rumbled somewhere, and Ohta didn't know how to interpret that at all. Was it close or far? Was it the herald of an inbound or outbound storm? The grass wasn't damp and the wind didn't seem to be blowing in any particular direction. Every clue that nature may have presented was simply meaningless to him, and after spending ten seconds on this, the office work promptly tossed a blanket of apathy over it all. Compared to a gunman, the idea of a storm didn't sound like a threat at all. How many times had typhoons struck Japan, after all? How many times had the cloudburst and left him to walk back home while soaked to the bones. It didn't matter. What mattered was that he was indeed correct.

The torii was the terminal point of a path. Two statues, their silhouette indistinguishable in the darkness of the night, were probably the guardian deities of this gate. The path itself lead to the forest. Perhaps it was a bit haunting, the idea of walking through a forest in the middle of the night, but if one envisioned this during daylight...

[color=ccddee]"A nature hike."[/color] Ohta placed his hand upon the wood of the torii, inhaling deeply. He still wasn't certain how he had been transported here, so far away from the bright lights of the downtown core, but the ability to place this haunting scenery as a 'landmark' was enough to settle him. A path through the forest that lead to a parking lot and a trailhead. A parking lot and a trailhead that lead to a major road. A major road that lead to a town. A town that lead to a train station. His phone worked as a Suico, and he still had about half-battery in it. Would probably still end up home late, and would probably still be exhausted in the morning, and would probably still have to grind away at his job as a fucking office gopher who did tricks for free, but that was fine. Just gotta keep going.

[color=ccddee]"W-well, I think,"[/color] Ohta gestured in the direction of the statues, [color=ccddee]"we could probably keep going? I don't hear that person anymore...he'd probably, I dunno, be moving faster than us anyway, so..."[/color]