[He hesitates before answering Haruki, staring at the readout of code on the screen. The surface protections are fairly easy, but time-consuming. If they're making the protection harder as they go along (which seems appropriately dramatic), this won't be a quick job at all. Not by any means impossible, but he's not going to make Haruki wait here with him.]

Probably a few hours at the least. I'll only know what's on each layer of protection once I get through the one before it. I'll let you know over the journals once I'm done?