He and Sasuke definitely agreed about that. The radio people hadn't shown themselves to be terribly effective at being anything other than a headache. There was something undeniably foolish for voluntarily chasing after a fool's errand, at that, but such was the Institute in general.
Fools fighting fools was the nature of the game. The prisoners just happened to be the most expendable of all the players of the board.
While they proceeded through the halls, the vampire wondered what further game they would face if they chose to head up rather than down, keeping a cursory eye on their surroundings. More talking skeletons? More inscrutable rebel agents? Surely they were guaranteed to face something, given how quiet the halls were. Landel had to be saving his best for the right moment, if he hadn't been thoroughly distracted.
By the time they made it to the library, Aidou was more than ready to see what all the fuss was about with the hidden switch. There had obviously been a way to reach the third floor from the beginning, but to put it in the library? If a wall opened up to some kind of archaic spiral staircase, he wasn't going to be able to hold back his eye roll.
"Yes," he answered, beginning to skim the book spines where the walls and ceiling conjoined in such a way as to support a passage leading upward. "One particular book... quite helpfully hinted at on the bulletin board. At least something useful came out of it for once."
At the speed with which Aidou moved, it didn't take him long to isolate the book of verses at all. He rested his index finger on the book's top.
"This one."
An attempt to move the book resulted in an unnatural pressure and a click... and then there it was, a passage leading to some kind of escalator. Not a spiral staircase, not exactly. Close, though.
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Fools fighting fools was the nature of the game. The prisoners just happened to be the most expendable of all the players of the board.
While they proceeded through the halls, the vampire wondered what further game they would face if they chose to head up rather than down, keeping a cursory eye on their surroundings. More talking skeletons? More inscrutable rebel agents? Surely they were guaranteed to face something, given how quiet the halls were. Landel had to be saving his best for the right moment, if he hadn't been thoroughly distracted.
By the time they made it to the library, Aidou was more than ready to see what all the fuss was about with the hidden switch. There had obviously been a way to reach the third floor from the beginning, but to put it in the library? If a wall opened up to some kind of archaic spiral staircase, he wasn't going to be able to hold back his eye roll.
"Yes," he answered, beginning to skim the book spines where the walls and ceiling conjoined in such a way as to support a passage leading upward. "One particular book... quite helpfully hinted at on the bulletin board. At least something useful came out of it for once."
At the speed with which Aidou moved, it didn't take him long to isolate the book of verses at all. He rested his index finger on the book's top.
"This one."
An attempt to move the book resulted in an unnatural pressure and a click... and then there it was, a passage leading to some kind of escalator. Not a spiral staircase, not exactly. Close, though.