Shock filled Tesuro's senses as Kishou's files faded away. While hardware failures were not unusual, they never happened in so simple a manner; something was not right. He checked his files again. The video played, but the image shown was an empty hallway, and the eerie moaning was replaced with Tesuro's pained shout. "Damn it!" he exclaimed, as he switched to the image file. It too had been altered--a simple picture of an empty hallway with no trace of the image before them. He knew this was no hardware failure or file corruption, and nobody could have tampered with both his and Kishou's files in such a quick instant. There was some supernatural occurence, and it shook Tesuro down to his bones. He now had no proof to provide to Kiyoko, yet he knew what he and Kishou had seen were real. Still, he knew that he could not say anything to Kiyoko pertaining to the situation as he risked making himself look not only to be a fool but possibly to be disturbed as well.
Seeing the two new recruits entering, he decided it was time to holster his pistol back into its place so as not to make anyone uneasy. A sigh of frustration escaped his lips as he put away his communicator, still horrified and confused. He turned to the Nepleslian and looked him up and down strangely. Hmm, you don't see many of them around anymore. he thought rather passively. He had no disdain for Nepleslians, he simply had not met them on many occasions and had difficulty sizing them up. Tesuro leaned forward, seeing Xanatos behind Roken he figured he would need to explain why he had his weapon out. "It was nothing. I thought I saw something, but it was nothing. However in this state of war, I suppose you can never be too cautious..." he said, lying to them about the apparition he had just seen.
He tapped his rank pin and introduced himself, still tense, "I'm Urameshi Tesuro, Santo Hei." Not waiting for them to respond, he began his way out, still talking, "We'll have to be better acquainted in the morning during the breifing, you two. Kishou, it was lovely meeting you, and I hope you sleep well despite the...thing. Any way, good night, good night, good night."
With a swiftness in his step, Tesuro darted out of the room, trying to assess everything that had transpired thus far. Surely the mysterious, bloody letters in the first breifing room were connected somehow. Though he knew not what significance those words had, they obviously hit the veteran members of the crew hard, reminding them of the army's failure to protect Taiie. But what had that to do with the headless apparition? At the time, he hadn't enough information to piece everything together--he knew only that there had been some sort of a disaster relating somehow to the destruction of Taiie. Tesuro questioned whether or not it was his business to snoop further into such a great occurence; something far beyond his scope of power or understanding. But he decided that if whatever force was at work found him worthy enough to reveal such a vision to him, that he had at least some authority to find out more. "I suppose I could ask..." he mumbled to himself. "If Kiyoko knows the meaning behind those words...perhaps she might also know the meaning behind what I have seen..."
As he returned to his enlisted commons, his head was tilted in thought. It was at that point he decided that after the briefing and departure, he would talk to Kiyoko privately about the matter. This was, of course, partially due to his curiosity surrounding the matter, as well as his desire to be alone with her. Tesuro hoped only that there even would be a spare moment of privacy between them, as the entire crew would obviously be very busy. He brushed that thought aside for the time being and lifted his head out of though, seeing Akira leaned against the hallway. Tesuro stopped, shocked and not able to hide anywhere, he simply stood and stared with his hand still at his chin.
