thenightmarebyyourside:
…Well. He was… mostly just covering all his bases, in giving as much fair warning as he could. Since it’d be easy to think something might have worse consequences later, it seemed simpler to get across that this is intended to be safe.
And better to get the intent across now than wait to see if something did go wrong to try and convince him after the fact.
Anyway…
“You’re the only one who’s going to be experiencing the illusions, for the most part, so I can keep them up as long as necessary. How much or how little time would depend on how many there are, on what scale, and how easy I’d think they are to identify as at least being out of place.”
A nod to the (lack of) ground. “This is more meant to play on fears. You can’t see the bottom, it’s a sharp drop off from the visible ground… a mental hurdle than a realistic illusion. It’s easy to identify as fake, even if it’s hard to take a chance and walk out over it.” A casual wave, and the void evaporated… but instead of the ground being back, the two were standing just above a built in swimming pool, with two shadows shifting slightly ‘below’ the water.
“…In the right place, this would be much more difficult to point out at fake. Might take… ten minutes?”
Kaito stiffened at that first gleam of water, only to relax as a pool came into view. It had been an instinctive reaction, really, a fight or flight response ( that leaned more towards flight in this case ) to...not the pool nor even the water itself, but rather what might be hiding beneath its depths.
It’s a ridiculous fear. Kaito knew that.
He couldn’t even remember what had caused it in the first place, all those many years ago. An accident, perhaps. His child self could’ve easily slipped and--
Kaito shook his head. This wasn’t the time for any self-analysis, and he lifted his gaze, away from the incredibly realistic water ( had he expected anything less of Spider, though? ) and back up to the assassin.
“You know, I’m kind of starting to think that you’re just showing off now,” he grinned, teased, more for pushing away any remaining unease in himself than anything else. “Not that I mind. You’re great at what you do and this is a rare opportunity to get a closer look at your illusions without worrying that you’re going to use them to, like, trap me or something.”
He’s teasing, again. It’s been a very, very long time since Spider’s used his illusions against him like that, after all.
“So, no real burden on you to keep them up, I’m pretty much the only one who’s going to see them, you’ll keep me from getting hurt or traumatized...” Kaito counted off on his fingers. “Aaand I’ll have thirty minutes to see through them all. Sounds good to me. I’m fine to start whenever you are.”















