[Ryoma took the sudden kitsune to the back with a grunt, fingers tightening a little around his cup of coffee. He was... studying the situation. Planning his next move. He wasn't wary of whatever fresh hell modern invention these--walking stairs were. People stepped onto them with nothing even vaguely resembling fear, some people even trying to jostle their way up the ascent faster.

Perhaps those were the wise ones. It seemed ill-advised to give the stairs time to plan something devious.]

I don't know... but it seems to be the quickest way to get to the second floor, unless we want to spend more time searching for stairs that weren't bewitched.

[They might miss the light show if they take too long... but who knew what hidden horrors waited on the automatically rising steps? Not that Ryoma was afraid. He was just... a healthy level of cautious.]