video; un: hinokami

[zutsuki]

[The feed is horribly wobbly at first, the device obviously in motion in fumbling hands as it's set lengthwise against a surface, propped up. Tanjiro takes not-enough steps backward from it, leaving the video to be mostly awkwardly focused on his chin and shoulders. He has no frame of reference for how this works, let him live.]

I'm only about half sure I'm doing this right, but I really hope I am because I have something really important I have to share. I'm sorry-- for sharing it, because it's probably putting a lot of people in danger, but!! I'm Kamado Tanjiro, and I'm here to pass along a really unsettling message my friend received, and I hope you'll all pass it around and hopefully we can find a solution.

[He turns to look off screen for a moment, says something that's muddled by his facing the other direction, and then walks back to his own device with another one in his hand. He then proceeds to turn the other device toward the video of his own, showing a too-close view of what is ...still clearly a chain letter text message. He leaves it there a moment, as if expecting people to read it, before stepping back again.]

I don't know what it means, but if anyone has any details on this Bloody Mary, which I'm pretty sure is probably a demon, please let me know! You can also contact Hashibira Inosuke, this was sent to him first! I'll read it, too--

You are now cursed! You must send this on or you will be killed. Tonight at 12:00am, by Bloody Mary. This is no joke. So don't think you can quickly get out of it and delete it now, because Bloody Mary will come to you if you do not send this on. She will slit your throat and your wrists and pull your eyeball out with a fork. And then hang your dead corpse in your bedroom cupboard or put you under your bed. What is your family going to do when they find you dead? Won't be funny then, will it? Don't think this is a fake and it's all put to scare you because you are wrong, so very wrong. Remember, Bloody Mary can do anything!

[He's still too close to the video feed to really be seen properly, but he's also taking this entire thing Far Too Seriously. His grip on Inosuke's phone, which is the most visible thing at this moment, is even white-knuckled.]

Everyone please be safe!!

[Someone please help this poor idiot country bumpkin. Or at least laugh at him.]

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video | un: miniskirts_forever

[queenofminiskirts]

[She actually laughed, and there's still a glimmer of laughter in her eyes, bright and teasing when she finally makes the message.]

You know, there is a way to get rid of this curse. Do you want to know about it?

[Kaoru no]

[zutsuki]

[He's not sure what to do with the laughter, and it makes him slightly dubious of her offer, but he crouches to get closer to his phone anyway. Ah, the ever-gullible.]

Yes.

[queenofminiskirts]

[She gives him the most guileless and innocent smile. Does this look like the face of a liar?]

Well, first you need to copy the message...then you need to send it to fifty people.

[zutsuki]

[He looks immediately pressed.]

Um-- what if I don't... know fifty people? And-- it was sent to my friend, can I do it for him or does he have to do it? Or do we both have to send it to fifty people, now that I've read it?

[queenofminiskirts]

You can both send it to fifty people just to be safe? And there's plenty of people replying here, aren't there?

[zutsuki]

Is it really okay to just send it to fifty strangers though? Won't that be troublesome for them...?

[This boy.]

[queenofminiskirts]

[...what a nice boy.]

If I said it'd be troublesome what would you do?

as i just put everything in courier reflexively

[zutsuki]

Well, I'd have to find another way, then!
I can't just go troubling strangers when me and my friend got ourselves into this mess.

when I saw it I was like...did I forget to put in courier text...?

[queenofminiskirts]

[Ah...

She couldn't help the way her smile turned fond. She really is...weak to people who are kind.]

It's not like you tried to get yourselves into this mess. If anything, isn't it the fault of the person who sent this to your friend?

oh mood

[zutsuki]

[Sorry for the intensity of this weakness then, this kid doesn't know how to be anything but aggressively kind.]

Hmm, well maybe.
But that's still no reason to go troubling others over it!

[queenofminiskirts]

[Stop ruining her attempt to start a chain mail by being so kind!]

Well...how about I send it to fifty people for you? I don't mind troubling people a little. [Besides, no one would be hurt by this.]

[zutsuki]

[He looks a little alarmed by that notion.]

--oh, but won't that trouble you? And would that even work, if me and Inosuke are the ones who saw it first...?

[queenofminiskirts]

No way! I want to do it because it'd be funny--I mean. Because I want to help. [Look at this smile. Does it look like the face of someone who'd start a chainmail because she's bored?]

And I'm sure it'd work! [On what grounds...? Because she says so.]

[zutsuki]

[He looks pretty concerned for a moment, but nods slowly.]

I mean, if you'd like to... I'd be in your debt, especially if it'll raise our chances of not getting attacked.

[queenofminiskirts]

[........omg. This guy...is exactly the kind of person who would fall for scams.

She's worried now.]

Hey, if someone calls you about being in an accident don't give them any money, okay?

[zutsuki]

[YEAH, he... really unfortunately is. Gullible to a fault. RIP.]

...I don't really have any money, anyway, but okay. [He looks pretty baffled by this sudden thought. Accidents and giving people money?? Is Lunatia okay??]

[queenofminiskirts]

But even if you didn't have a lot you'd give whatever you did have right? [How worrying!]

Being kind isn't a bad thing but if you're not careful you'll end up as one of those scam victims that got his identity stolen.

[zutsuki]

[He frowns, and squares his shoulders.] Well, not now that you've warned me not to!! Is that another way I'll be cursed?

Wait-- my identity? Somebody can steal that?? [Please be kind to this country bumpkin from the early 1900s.]

[queenofminiskirts]

Yeah, it's a curse that will lead to your bank account being emptied or even dragged into a pyramid scheme where you end up selling the scam to other people!

[...gosh. Where does she even start...]

Yeah, and it could be serious! They might just use your name and picture on social media to catfish people...or they may steal your credit card information and before you know it, you've racked up millions of yen in debt!

[zutsuki]

Wh... wait, What's... What's a bank account? Should I have one??

[He's so, so very lost.]

[queenofminiskirts]

It's where you keep money...but I guess we don't need one in this place. Since the only money here is Chroma.

[But...all this talk about curses and how he doesn't know a lot of these modern things...]

What sort of place are you from?

[zutsuki]

[That's... a question he doesn't quite know how to answer.]

Um-- I think, maybe I'm from a different era than we're in here? Do you know what year it is?

[queenofminiskirts]

Who even knows?

[She certainly doesn't. Okay...so maybe she should ask this question another way because 'a different era' can mean just about anything...]

Do you know who Oda Nobunaga is?

yells i thought i tagged this

[zutsuki]

Eh? The daimyo from the Sengoku period, wasn't he?

well, you did now!

[queenofminiskirts]

So you know about him.

[But not about technology! So that...actually, that seems like it's still a huge chunk of time and she's not the best at history. Ah, well.]

So he's before your time?