Outside 50: Meeting nature halfway

[Chaotic Bob]

[ABAJ - Night 3 -> Day 4, Morning]

"I would prefer you didn't die, so let's operate away from that presumption.
If you are quite certain these two are the threats, and I see no immediate reason to question your judgement on this, then my advise it to convince Atsushi however you are able, so that he can either lie or be creative. I suspect he has a better-than-most grasp of his emotions, if you warn him appropriately."
She holds up one of her hands and an image of something vaguely akin to an overly complicated clock briefly flickers into view.
"This is Good work you're doing, G'nichi, even though it doesn't feel that way. A lot of lives stand to be saved. Good luck."

And if he has nothing else to say, he'll wake up back in his little dorm room with the faintest wisps of fog retreating under the door frame.
Next to his bed, something that looks like a double-sided mace sits on the ground. Each "head" is rounded with not-quite-sharp ridges running vertically from the tip down to the handle.