[He gives a sort of non committal grunt in response to the shut ins thing. He can think of one person who would absolutely be all about ViViD and he doesn't like the idea of lumping her in with shut-ins. Even if she...kind of might actually have some of those tendencies, bless her little gamer heart.]

Well clearly they have ways of forcing us in here, even if we don't want to be. I sure as hell wouldn't be here right now if I had any say in the matter. Here's some good news though.

[He points a few feet away, to the set of stairs leading upwards that they've finally reached. Kuzuryuu was so absorbed in the conversation, he hadn't even noticed how close they were getting until they were almost on top of them.]

Looks like you were right, this was the right way.