Open ♔ My pri may be pri, but it’s the pri in “prince”, pri!

[priforprince]

Who: Hibiki and you, pri
When: July 27, pri
Where: Harajuku, pri
What: An unusual ayakashi is preying upon Japan’s cutest citizens, pri.
Warnings: Pri-ating the dead horse that is Hibiki's phobia, pri. (Live horse also included. Pri.)


[ In an area of town as style-conscious as Harajuku, various fads come and go. The latest craze, however, seems to be completely involuntary: anyone visiting these two particular blocks of the area will find themselves compelled to add a cutesy suffix or “sentence ender” to the ends of whatever they say. What’s worse, the effect doesn’t seem to wear off for quite some time after leaving, and the longer people use their sentence enders, the fonder they grow of them.

This is causing no end of additional discord to erupt as friends and loved ones slowly cannot stand being around their affected acquaintances anymore.

Particularly adept or powerful gods and shinki may notice an ayakashi-like smoke issuing from people’s mouths as they use their sentence enders. The source is somewhere in town, hiding out. Lurking. Enjoying inflicting itself upon its unsuspecting victims, and growing stronger from ingesting said smoke. Why, it's even affecting any gods and shinki who wander into its territory...

Into this mess, preoccupied by dreams of revolution, rides one Shikyoin Hibiki on a literal white horse. (Don’t ask.) If she’s going to attract PriPara to the Near Shore, she imagines it’ll be touching down where Parajuku should be, as it’s the closest PriPara location to her shrine. Best scope out the area to be sure there’s nothing of use there right now….

But what is this chill in the midsummer air, and this deep-rooted sense of terror-stricken foreboding? ]

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[lookingforhead]

[Celty's not going to stop Hibiki from dismounting at all. Actually she's a little surprised the other girl has held on this long, and given the look on her face she'd normally be inclined to stop.

But once the Something makes its appearance, the rider's focus on the chase tightens. She holds up a hand as the horse charges forward, aiming first at the creature's smoky trail and then a bit ahead of where it seems to be going.

As she's been training she puts her fingers in the 'halberd' shape and tries to focus on making a Borderline...It's not the worst one she's made, but it's more of a burst of light and then a sputter as it fails to come together completely.]

[priforprince]

[ The sputter is still enough to surprise the ayakashi, which drops to the ground with a burp as Hibiki covers her ears and hops off the horse. Its eyes - and its many, many mouths - all turn towards the Prince.

"Tasty, kero! Tasty, kero!"

Celty has found herself a fat multi-mouthed frog.

And Hibiki, once she caught the sight of multiple mouths, all spitting sentence enders simultaneously, has frozen into a statue. The Prince appears, let's say, in distress. ]

[lookingforhead]

[The horse isn't of much mind to pay attention to Celty at this point, and with Hibiki bailing out her priority becomes protecting her unwilling companion. She leaps down after the fallen prince and throws up a sphere of shadow around herself and Hibiki.

The ayakashi will find the sphere impenetrable both to assault and sound, so Hibiki is saved at this point. But if the creature were to escape this would be its chance.]

[priforprince]

[ The frog ayakashi bounces off the sphere once or twice before deciding this isn't a great idea. Burbling in displeasure, it takes a mighty hop, scales a building, and disappears - from this particular street corner, at least.

Hibiki's condition remains pretty much the same for the time being. ]

[lookingforhead]

[After a few moments of silence Celty dispels the shadow shell, leaving them kneeling in the middle of the street. She looks around for a tense moment but then relaxes once she's mostly sure the threat has passed.]

[priforprince]

Its potency should shrink with a smaller audience.

[ Look who's back. And apparently deciding to act like none of her previous behavior even happened. ]

[lookingforhead]

[There's a bit of a pause as Celty studies Hibiki before answering.]

What was that just now? And what did you mean by 'sentence enders'?

[priforprince]

[ Hibiki flicks her bangs out of her face, sighing. ] "Sentence enders" are an obnoxious habit of attaching nonsense words to one's speech. It's artificial, idiotic, and outdated, besides.

You're fortunate to have gone this long without learning about them.

[ It clearly displeases her to have even needed to introduce them into a life previously blessed with ignorance. ]

[lookingforhead]

[Celty just balks at this. She supposes she can see where Hibiki is coming from, and she can think of a few cases even with her limited memory where it's annoyed her too but this reaction seems to be right over into the extreme.

Nobody tell Hibiki about grammatical practices on internet forums. Especially fandom ones.]

Right

I guess we should catch that Ayakashi before it can do any more damage?

[priforprince]

You may, if you wish.

[ Hibiki currently lacks the proper hunting equipment.

Not a shinki, mind you. Sentence ender cutphones. ] I'm returning.