Well, there was a voice, so he could assume that whoever that other shadow was, he wasn’t another monster. Good. Ryou popped the cap off of the bottle of paint thinner, internally bemoaning the loss of art and quietly hoping that somehow, it would fix itself up after all this was over.
“You over there, stay back- I know how to deal with these, but you really don’t want to get paint thinner on you.”
The other figure didn’t seem close enough, at least. Once the paint monster was near enough to him to attack he quickly splashed it with the thinner, managing to not use an entire bottle in the process. That was good, these bottles were hard to come by. It was only once the monster had melted down that Ryou let out a sigh of relief, walking over to the rather panicked-looking man.
“He looks like he’d keel over at the slightest breeze at this point.”
‘That’s not nice, spirit.’
“Don’t care. Hey, I wonder if he’ll pass out when he notices Dark Necrofear?”
Resisting the urge to roll his eyes at the ghost currently haunting him, Ryou turned to look at the doll still standing on his shoulder. She certainly looked… haunted, for lack of a better word, but she was being quite polite. Hopefully the man either wouldn’t notice, or wouldn’t mind.
“Are you alright? I’m sorry if I’d frightened you before.” Ryou wouldn’t blame the other if he mistook him for a ghost- it wouldn’t be the first time someone had made that comparison, thanks to his hair.
Rosho didn’t need to take the time to wonder what that meant. The stranger before him splashed a nearby monster with said thinner, and Rosho watched in surprise as it melted, as if splashed with powerful acid.
A wave of relief washed over him, and he let out a long sigh. That was one less of those things to deal with...
Straightening himself up, Rosho stepped closer to get a look at the person he’d come across. He seemed about the age of his students. That did help him to relax a bit... or it would have, if not for the strange doll on his shoulder. It wasn’t doing much of anything, so Rosho assumed it was safe, but...
“Oh, ah... No need to apologize. I’m-- I’m just on edge, I suppose.” He looked about him as he spoke, as if expecting another monster to pop out at any minute. His gaze wandered to the spot where the monster had melted.
“...You were able to defeat it, yes? With the paint thinner...? I tried to take on one that came after me earlier, but punching it didn’t seem to do much at all...” Tried to take on was a bit of a generous description, considering Rosho had just screamed and punched the thing the moment it had lunged at him, but there was no need to go into those details.