"Oh? Well now, I don't know. But wouldn't it be fun to find out?" Sato sounds intrigued, watching Firo continue to make next to no progress in the level, figuring out one touch-of-death after another. Spelunker-man is about as sturdy as a sheet of wet toilet paper. "If nothing else, I'd like to try to understand how it works."

Of course he might have the idea of disabling it in mind more than anything. That shield was really a problem to be worked on.