thenearshore | 23 - Crazy Cat Shuffle

Who: Everyone!
What: Crazy Cat Shuffle
When: September 20
Where: Shibuya & Ikebukuro, as well as the Far Shore
Summary: The new Crazy Cat mascot keychains are sparking real passion in Tokyo's hot spots. Brawls have broken out over the extra-rare versions, and all of this angst is attracting ayakashi. The gods have been asked to step in before things get out of control.

Crossing Crisis

the very rarest kind!

Sunshine Struggle

Taking Stock

Bad Kitty

In Summary:

Placate the crowds
Squash bitty ayakashi
Struggle with temptation
Defeat the cat invasion
Have fun~

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Yeah. [Davesprite follows the ayakashi at a short distance back, curving towards the store it's heading for. It seems to be a toy shop crammed floor-to-ceiling with just about everything imaginable on the front of toys and collectibles.

It's serving to hide away the machine in the back corner a little.]

Shit, they've got one of those stupid cat toy machines here too.

Those things again....

[One foot on the bottom rung of the cart, Chikusa starts to push himself along through the crowd. beep beep, asshole teenager coming through.]

If only this had been melted too.

What the fuck got melted, that's not just a thing you say without context. [It's entirely possible he's forgotten some kind of similar previous instance, but right now it just seems like a non-sequitur.]

I'm gonna hope just one of these fuckers doesn't get people suddenly noticing this machine, though.

Someone was melting the machines outside on the street... and keeping people from using them.

[Which is a very handy skill, and one Chikusa wishes he could have. For now, however, he just watches Davesprite to se where he's heading.]

If worse comes to it.... We can just trap it and get it elsewhere.

That. Is a way to handle the situation, I guess. [Melting, though? That's kind of fucked up and yet he also wishes he'd been there to see it at least a little, if only to see how it was done.]

Assuming others don't turn up to the buffet while we're kicking the first customer out.

[Chikusa could tell, but he doesn't as he comes to a stop in front of the machine.]

...Let's handle that...

[By which he means drawing a borderline, which he does.]

That's one direction covered...

[There's not a great deal of entrances to the store, thankfully, so Davesprite just draws a borderline to back up covering the door and then, after a moment, another one in front of a roof vent.]

Yeah, that's probably about it unless they can come through walls.

So....

[And his stare falls onto the machine.]

...Any ideas no getting it out?

...Can we just take the machine and destroy it somewhere.

[Look, this is obviously a good idea that definitely isn't going to backfire. But chances are any other method of getting it out of the machine would break it anyway.]

...Your telekinesis can't move a gacha machine.

[Which isn't to say that Chikusa is against this plan of action]

Nope, but if it's not bolted down then I can probably fly off with it unless it's way heavier than it looks.

[He's capable of carrying people, so he can probably carry a machine that spits out weird cat keychains just fine.]

[...Now this he has to see]

Go for it.

[Davesprite checks just to make extra sure it's not bolted down before he curls his tail around it for additional support and grabs it under the top enclosure for the gacha balls. It's actually a fair bit lighter than the weight of most people, so he lifts it up pretty easily once he has a decent grip on it.]

Bam. Now where the fuck are we taking it.

[Would you look at that, he did it. Sure, the sight looks silly, but as long as it gets the job done...]

....What do you think would happen if we threw it in front of a train?

[chikusa no]

Probably something bad, so let's not do that. [They do not need to inconvenience anyone's morning routine by somehow derailing a train with a gacha machine.] We're not really close enough to the ocean to drop it into the water, are we.

[He doesn't really want to fly most of the way across Tokyo to drop it in Tokyo Bay.]

I think... that would take more of a train ride than we'd want to take.

[Sure, Japan is an island, but there's still distance to consider. Chikusa shoves his hands into his pockets.]

....Drop it from top of a building. [Oh, right-] Away from people...

Taking this on a train at all would probably be an issue. [People do kind of start noticing when you're doing something as obvious as carrying around a gacha machine.]

Are there that many buildings around here away from people, we're in the middle of a city.

There have to be alleys.... or something. [Oh, wait. He stirs.] Or... a taller building to a shorter one. That's more common right...

I dunno, probably. I don't really have any personal recommendations, though, this isn't one of the areas I scope out. [He's most familiar with the surroundings of Hajime's shrine, which doesn't include this particular area.]

Let's... just find an elevator and work from there.

[This is a fool proof plan, right]

Literally the nearest elevator still sounds like a bad idea. ["Away from people" was kind of the point of this exercise, Chikusa.]

....We can just kick them out...

[He has no qualms about this, after all.]

Or do you want to fly up with it the whole way...?

Yeah, but this is a busy part of town, it's not exactly going to be hard for this shit to get back to people. The last thing we need is half-crazed potentially violent cute shit fans on a rooftop.

[The cute shit fans are definitely the kind of fans that would kill a man to get their merchandise.]

...So you're flying.

Do I look like I was expecting not to be flying. [He wrapped most of himself around the machine for a reason.]

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