This wasn’t how he expected his first interaction with Yamato to go. He really should’ve known it would be something completely out of his expectations, though.
He had been sleeping when Nagi called him- sleeping in to be exact. He didn’t get much of a chance to back in Japan, so he figured he might try to see what Yamato made a fuss about. Honestly, he didn’t really like it. At some point in the morning he’d grown restless, and it was almost a relief when Nagi had called him.
“Yeah, just get a running start- are you kidding me?! No! You’re asking us to jump off a cliff!” Mitsuki shouted, gesturing to the drop before them. “You’re with me, right, Yamato? This is crazy! What if they’re lying and it’s not safe at all?!”
He crossed his arms over his chest, huffing. He didn’t think he’d have to be the voice of reason in something like this.
Yamato disliked being woken up early. But, he was used to it. Unfortunately. But, he couldn’t really ever bring himself to say no to Nagi of all people, much less an excited Nagi, so he’d dragged himself out of bed and let the excitable man take him wherever it was he wanted to go.
And now all of a sudden they were standing at the top of a very tall cliff and Mitsuki was there and what the fuck was going on??
“Yeah, um, no way. Not happening. We’ll die. Like, seriously die. We’ll end up a stain on the ground and that’ll be it. Do you have any idea how tall this cliff is?? It’s like - shit, I don’t know, it’s way too tall! You don’t jump from this height and live, Nagi!”
God, just looking over the edge was enough to have Yamato’s head spinning. He stepped away, swallowing thickly. Usually he tried especially hard to hide when things frightened him, but actually seriously fuck this.
“Couldn’t you have chosen something simpler?! Like, I don’t know, wasn’t there some task about performing? That’d be easy! Why’d you pick this?!”
Ah. This wasn’t going as planned at all.
Mitsuki and Yamato were just...upset now, weren’t they? And Nagi thought he had chosen well! It was a leap of faith - everyone liked taking those, right? They had taken plenty together, during their time in IDOLiSH7. This one was just...a lot more literal!
It...had to be safe, right? The announcement that woke him up in the first place had said all of this was for data collection - not to hurt or to harm them. If they had wanted to do that, wouldn’t all of these Ofiuclones have just attacked them right off the bat?
“No, no, it’s okay! There is padding beneath the cliff, it’s just invisible! I would not lead the two of you into a situation where I think we would get hurt.” He insisted, looking over the edge of the cliff again. Sure, it was a pretty big fall...but it wasn’t terrible. He hadn’t fallen from greater heights - but he had certainly stood upon taller peaks.
“It’s a test, it’s okay!”