prismatica | video; un: hinokami

[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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[Listen, he's gullible and dumb. But thank you for your honesty, Mafuyu.]

Are you sure?

Yeah
These are the kind of stories people tell on overnight trips in grade school to make you scared
Just in text form

Oh like ghost stories...
That makes sense!
Now I feel a little foolish, but... It sounded so real!

It said that it wasn't fake, so I don't blame you

We had a lot of stories at my elementary school
I think most schools have them

Like about the number of stairs decreasing or increasing
Or how the piano in the music room will play by itself if you go to school at night

I'll have to be more careful so I don't get fooled again.
Texting is still really new to me, anyway.

Probably! I grew up in the mountains, so we were kind of just... taught at home, instead of in a school, but we still told scary stories and stuff, in my family.

Wow, I really hope those aren't real!!
I guess ghost stories don't spook me as bad as they used to, but those would still be really scary situations.

I see
Sorry
I hope it didn't seem like I was making fun of you

When I was younger, my friend tried to scare me with stories like this all the time
So I got used to it too
None of it really happened, though

What was it like being taught at home?

Oh!
No, not at all.
It was my own fault for not knowing what to expect, so I appreciate you telling me it's like scary stories in schools.

That's good to hear.

Kinda cramped? And probably really hard on my mother for a while.
I'm the oldest of six, so trying to make sure everyone was following along had to be really hard until I was old enough to help her.
But... I guess life in the mountains is never really easy!

I'm glad
I don't think you're to blame, though

It sounds really different from my life
I'm an only child
And I live on the outskirts of one of the most populous cities in the world

Maybe we're opposites

Well I probably could have taken more time to assess what I was looking at instead of rushing into inciting panic over something so silly.
Now that I'm looking back at it, it really is obvious it's fake...

Oh wow!
I've only been to a few big cities, but they're so busy...
It's kind of overwhelming!
Do you like living there?

Sounds like it, maybe!

I think so?
I've never lived anywhere else

There are a lot of people
But you can find quieter places if you look
And it's easy to take a train to the countryside or beach if you want to

If you're used to the mountains, then Lunatia must be even harder for you to adjust to than me

It's gonna be tough, that's for sure...
But I've been traveling for a few years now, so I've gotten better.
I'm just a little easy to fool about things I don't understand.
Which I guess explains the Bloody Mary prank.