Because the source of the peril is inevitable, the logical thing to do is to direct your attention elsewhere. And when faced with something repulsive and irrelevant, the logical thing to do is also to direct your attention elsewhere. The aim would be to take advantage of those dual instincts in order to trap you in a loop of shifting your attention between two things that are either irrelevant or entirely out of your control, thus rendering you incapable of controlling your own thoughts.

[ Maybe he shouldn’t be deconstructing what was intended to be a method of murdering her. But the alternative is focusing on ‘someone took my place’. Hierophant squeezes in answer, because it only has so many forms of communication available to it. It twists the rose into its final shape and places it in Kirigiri’s open hand, next to the crane. ]

The garbage chute just sounds unnecessarily vindictive, to be honest. It doesn’t add anything.