'Heard', this guy had said. Not confirmation either way, then. But Miketsukami had said something about certain creatures, and Gabe had said mountain lion. Don't go out, Kurogane had said. Too much to ask that things would be easy.

"From home, I meant," Ryusei said distractedly, picking up his fork. "I think I saw one last night, so I thought I'd impress her...." Not even Tomoko's influence could induce him to start seeing things, could it? It'd certainly never happened before.

He hadn't been able to confirm anything here yet, not really. But how did one go about confirming the existence of a ghost, anyway? About all he could do was ask Miketsukami and Gabe about what they'd seen and hope it wasn't a shared delusion. And what if it was? He could work around it. If he accepted certain things as a condition....

If he accepted certain things as a condition, he was going to have to accept that contradictory thing in his memories as a condition, too. It didn't make any sense for him to do so. But he could deal with that later. He had to deal with that later; he had other things to do right now.

"Uh, dangerous in what way?" he asked, looking up again. "What— what other things are there besides ghosts?"