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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[surexpose]

[Ah!! A familiar name!]

Mary is here? How wonderful! Though, I daresay, if she has her eye on you you're unlikely to escape. You and your friend should make your peace.

[Tearing out eyeballs with a fork, though? Grotesque, but he supposes she's dramatic enough for it. He wonders what pushed her to it. Bad hair day?]

[zutsuki]

[Well this is unsettling. He'd been told time and time again that it was fake, and suddenly here's this guy, talking about the spirit in the letter like she's a friend. His expression pinches.]

Um-- you know her?

[surexpose]

I do! She's something of a dear friend. And a wonderful dancer!

[zutsuki]

[Well if he didn't know what to do with this before, he sure as hell doesn't now.]

Do you think I could appeal to her to not come kill my friend? Maybe I could watch her dance and pay homage. [Tanjiro.]

[surexpose]

Hmm. I doubt it. Your friend must have done something to draw her ire, no? He should make his peace and learn his lesson. He'll come back anyway, won't he?

[It works the way here, right?]

[zutsuki]

[Almost everything in that set of questions confuses him, and he squares his shoulders.]

I don't think so! Inosuke may be really energetic, and he's definitely the sort to provoke someone, but neither of us had ever heard of her before this message! How could he have drawn her ire when we didn't even know her...?

[He's... really not sure what to do with the last question, because he's not even sure he understands it. Come back? What does that even mean?]

[surexpose]

Ah! Then perhaps you were simply unlucky. Ladies of her station are fickle, you know. [Not that he's any less fickle]

Maybe if you grovel prettily enough she won't do any of that eye-gouging nonsense and will make it nice and swift.

[zutsuki]

[He just kind of looks pressed, but with so many people telling him it's fake, he doesn't know what to do with one person being surprisingly convincing about knowing the supposed attacker.]

...Well I guess I'll just have to wait until midnight and see what happens.

[surexpose]

I do wish you luck. [Why does he sound so happy about it?]

You can always see if she would settle on just one of you, non?