“Nope. That doesn’t work either.” Minoru shook his head. He remembered that lecture in Defense Against the Dark Arts, probably because it had to do with snakes. “Looking at a reflection petrifies you. Might as well be staring straight at a gorgon.”

Being able to speak to snakes, he might have a chance to make a basilisk stand down, turn around, etc. But there was just as much of a chance he’d end up like a mouse to Kazumi.