If there was one thing Tachibana was skilled in, it was his ability to focus enough on an immediate situation to the exclusion of everything else. ...and that he had experience with fire-based powers also helped in keeping him from burning the forest down this game.

But his focus on soothing poor Garren's upset was interrupted by something that wasn't coming from his Partner. His eyes twitched up and he paused, staring.

"... The hell is going on?" he demanded.

Walking up as another person, he was sort of used to. Walking up as another person, and then encountering yourself... not so much.