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[monkeyblue]

From: Saruhiko Fushimi
Date: 12 July 22:00

[What? He doesn't sleep!]

I haven't been here long but my god vanished before I ever got to meet him which makes me wonder: what the hell is a shinki good for? What are we supposed to do? Is there any point in serving a god if they can just vanish?

Comments

[monkeyblue]

How does that even work, anyway? We're humans. How does someone use us in a fight?

[thevanguard]

Hmm? [ Yata glances over at him at that. ] It has something to do with the name we get. When they call it, we... I don't know, change into a tool or a weapon for them to use. it's different for everyone, I guess.

[monkeyblue]

What did you turn into?

[thevanguard]

[ Yata looks flustered for a moment, scratching at his cheek. ]

A skateboard. She got my speed from it - more than even I could manage normally.

[monkeyblue]

A skateboard? How is that a weapon, though?

[thevanguard]

Well, we landed on one of the targets, so I guess like that. But she didn't need me to be a weapon, exactly. She had one she was decent with already. But she needed me with her because having a shinki allows her to rend ayakashi. It's... I don't know, an ability? A spell? it's the only thing that can kill 'em, though.

[monkeyblue]

Huh.

[Interesting. He's quiet for a moment.]

There's some idiot saying back in their home, birds were smart enough to beat the humans in a war.

[thevanguard]

[ Yata blinks. And then blinks again. And then he picks up his head to shoot Saru a bewildered look. ]

What the fuck. Really?

[monkeyblue]

[Once again, he tosses his phone so Misaki can read it.]

[thevanguard]

[ Yata catches it with better ease this time but scoffs as he does so. ]

You coulda just read it to me, idiot.

[monkeyblue]

One: effort. Two: you need to read that for yourself. It's absurd.

[thevanguard]

You're absurd.

[ Take that.

Then his lips quirk and he shoots Saru a smirk. ]

Maybe you should find a bird god.

[monkeyblue]

Tch, a bird couldn't use a weapon.

[thevanguard]

Hey, shows what you know. Apparently somewhere out there they can conquer the human race!

[ And with that, he chucks the phone back at Saru. ]

[monkeyblue]

[He catches it just fine.]

That's still the dumbest thing...

[thevanguard]

[ Yata just laughs and flops back over on his back again. ]

It's not so bad, you know.

[monkeyblue]

Birds being smarter than humans isn't so bad?

[thevanguard]

[ Yata restrains the urge to throw his pillow at him again. Barely. ]

No. Being a shinki. Belonging to a god. Getting a name from them. All of that.

[monkeyblue]

Tch, I wouldn't know. Maybe it's different for each person, anyway.

[thevanguard]

Maybe it is. Maybe it depends on the god you get. Although most of the shinki I talked to here liked it. Maybe I didn't know Nami all that long, but I could still tell she was a good god. I was... I dunno. Happy to be her shinki, I guess.

[monkeyblue]

[Fushimi's quiet for a bit, thinking]

You were probably lucky.

[thevanguard]

Yeah. [ That's an easy enough thing to agree to, when he knows he was. ] Maybe you'll be luckier with your next one.

[monkeyblue]

Tch.

[That's all he has to say to that.]

[thevanguard]

[ Now he does throw a pillow at him, laughing. ]

Don't be so pessimistic. It could happen.