Toby briefly touched Suzume's shoulder as he walked past her. "Let us take care of this." He was genuinely curious to go behind that door. His father had told him that one of his favorite things about the military was exploring new things. Toby had never managed to experience such a thrill but now, today of all days, he was his fathers son.
Toby had for once actually ignored most of the other conversations for once and followed Haruka threw the door only to touch the closest wall. He could not stop himself from running a finger over it and he was purely disgusted as he felt the wall shake softly under his touch. He was suddenly compelled to take his lighter to the wall but quickly decided that it would be a horrible idea. He had no idea how this world worked but it was clearly beyond all reason or rational thought.
He faintly heard Haruka call to something and he pulled his attention away briefly only to get distracted by something even more odd, a creature who seemed to stick up out of the floor. His hand reached out and slowly wrapped around Haruka's. While he was deeply afraid to do so he was more afraid not to take her hand. He winced in pain as he was reminded of the rope burn he had gotten from her backpack. The creature was all red ungodly rectangular, seeming to not have any eyes or mouth to give it a proper face, and had long sharp looking blades on its hands, For some reason he recalled his mother telling him when he was young and they were going past a bad part of town: desire can leave a man blind Toby, and when it does it makes him so hungry that nothing will satisfy him. He could not help but think that perhaps this thing was the embodiment of that pure desire: disgusting, monstrous, yet still vaguely human. He felt that at any moment the thing was going to lunge at one of them and have a large mouth break open to devour them.
he leaned in to Haruka and whispered to her. "Lets back away, I don't think this thing is good. Remember what happened in the window yesterday Haruka?" He hoped she did because at the moment he felt like Suzume. His feet started to feel like lead, but he squeezed Haruka's hand till the pain came back and it stopped the terror and he focused hard on it. If they needed to run he was most likely the fastest and he would pull Haruka to safety if she needed .