[ the laugh grows a small smile on her face, distant as it seems, and carefully sets the dozing duck into her seat as she stands, turning back around to face ryoji and study him. tilting completely one way, then the other. stepping from one side, and then back.

a conundrum indeed. ]

You sort of just did it last time. [ easier said than done indeed. if only it were as simple as breaking the curse with a kiss. ] Um... Hmm. Maybe experiencing something shocking might do it...?

[ ... the procedure for a possession-type breach, which is what's most similar to ryoji's current form, was only ever to kill the employee affected. even now, distortions happen and they simply cannot be undone -- not to her knowledge, in any case. a one way affair.

but ryoji isn't like that. it's simply the closest knowledge she has to it, and it only proves that she can't rely on the things she did before; not that she'd want to, if it meant hurting someone so dear to her. ]

Shocking in a harmless way, I mean. Or... something humanizing...? Maybe you just need to look at some pictures of yourself...