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[chibisu]

Who: Ebisu, Aomi, and various out-temple workers
What: Time for a relaxing trip to Kanagawa, before the next thing blows up.
Where: Kanagawa
When: Sometime after that compound mess

Kanagawa Prefecture has a lot of good points. There's an opening to the ocean, a lake for touring, beautiful views of Mt. Fuji wherever you look, and all sorts of interesting museums or temples. Aomi, the organizer of this little trip, agrees for everyone to meet at Iiyama Kannon an hour or two before noon. An easy famous place that people hopefully won't get lost going to, and all. Until then, well, people are free to go wherever they like. They don't even have to stay in Atsugi, where the meeting area is supposed to be. There are beaches not that far off, zoos to enjoy various animals, parks where carefully cultivated flowers are in gleeful bloom, a bustling Chinatown, and even the little island of Enoshima.

When the time comes to meet up, however, Aomi can be found alongside Ebisu with a bulging backpack and he does a quick headcount to make sure everyone is there before continuing on. The ultimate destination isn't any of the many tourist attractions in Kanagawa, but rather he leads away from the cities and towards the forests of the prefecture. Aomi would have made sure to remind everyone that morning over text to wear hiking boots.... so hopefully they all remember to do that, because the path chosen is one that has no actual path at all. Hopefully no one gets hurt, although it shouldn't be too hard.

What's the destination? That much becomes obvious once they hit some more even land, where a small stone monument has been placed at the base of a fully blossoming Japanese wisteria. Here, Aomi will let everyone know it's fine to take a break, and settle down. It's here that he'll help spread out some various picnic blankets and begin unpacking from his enormous backpack. He's been courteous enough to pack lunch for just about everyone, and a good variety in case any one dish doesn't suit someone. There's delectably spicy yokosuka curry, juicy shirokoro horumon, rare to get shonan pork sausages, and a variety of sushi that takes full advantage of being from a seaside prefecture. Everyone is free to relax beneath the wisteria blossoms and enjoy the view peeking out from the trees.

Comments

[swordofzero]

It was important for Ebisu to rest as much as it was for everyone else. But Suzaku won't lecture a god and Ebisu has enough shinki of his own to lecture him, including Ginia. Even if none of the others lectured him Ginia was enough.

"Hopefully there will be more help in the future, I can ask around others of the newer shinki to see if they want a part time job."

He knew Ginia did a lot of advertising to, but it might come across differently from someone who really did just work part time for Ebisu and wasn't named by him. Might encourage others to do the same.

[chibisu]

"I would appreciate it. Even if it doesn't turn out to be fruitful an effort from word of mouth, I have other ways of encouraging people to help out." And he grins a little bit, as if that isn't slightly disconcerting to say. "However, I'll wait until the right time. After all, everyone has been very busy with this business concerning the cult. I hope that it ends soon."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku smiled back, even if that was a little disconcerting, hopefully it was just a quirk of Ebisu's to not quite realise how the things he said sounded and not as worrying as it seemed to be.

"I hope so too, it seems people are making good progress on figuring things out though."

[chibisu]

"As long as progress is being made, then I can't complain at all." Finishing up his own meal, he waits patiently as Aomi cleans his face just in case.

"As a god of commerce and the ocean both, it would worry me if things stagnated."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku smiled as he finished his meal and nodded politely at both Ebisu and Aomi. "Indeed, I am sure it won't. Hopefully things are progressing."

He leaned forwards to start tidying up the things they had been using.