[Honestly, Hijikata doesn't want to get too hung up on his successful little lockpicking trick. It came in handy here, but he's a samurai, not a ninja!
When Shoto runs off so readily he smiles after him. Ever so helpful. While the boy is gone he investigates the "crime scene", trying to figure out if the mannequin was using any tools - after all he doubts that they gored the unfortunate night guard with their bare fake hands -, and finds a historical knife, likely taken from elsewhere in the museum, next to the stuffed bat. Apparently the mannequin just started using its hands once it had cut it open. He attemps to understand why it even went for this exhibit... weren't they said to only take apart things that move? But after a few moments he realises that the mannequin must have caught its own moving reflection in the glass pane the information about the bat is written on and gotten curious.
When he hears the noise in the distance he immediately turns and goes sprinting towards it, but Shoto meets him halfway with the vase in his hands. He cracks a smile - there's no disbelief on his face, just pride.]
We're making good headway, aren't we?
[He accepts the vase, pleased with its contents, and carries it back to where they left the first mannequin. Its parts are still wiggling across the ground, and he collect the hands and puts them with the others (having to shake one off rather fiercely when it grabs on to his own hand).]
Without these they'll have a way harder time using any dangerous items.
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When Shoto runs off so readily he smiles after him. Ever so helpful. While the boy is gone he investigates the "crime scene", trying to figure out if the mannequin was using any tools - after all he doubts that they gored the unfortunate night guard with their bare fake hands -, and finds a historical knife, likely taken from elsewhere in the museum, next to the stuffed bat. Apparently the mannequin just started using its hands once it had cut it open. He attemps to understand why it even went for this exhibit... weren't they said to only take apart things that move? But after a few moments he realises that the mannequin must have caught its own moving reflection in the glass pane the information about the bat is written on and gotten curious.
When he hears the noise in the distance he immediately turns and goes sprinting towards it, but Shoto meets him halfway with the vase in his hands. He cracks a smile - there's no disbelief on his face, just pride.]
We're making good headway, aren't we?
[He accepts the vase, pleased with its contents, and carries it back to where they left the first mannequin. Its parts are still wiggling across the ground, and he collect the hands and puts them with the others (having to shake one off rather fiercely when it grabs on to his own hand).]
Without these they'll have a way harder time using any dangerous items.