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Of all the things you imagined being requested to do by your guide, praying to a God is definitely not one of them. The unusual request causes you to pause and gather your thoughts when time is of the essence. Your siblings are hellbent on getting back Kizaemon the cat, and they aren't going to be gentle about it. Especially given that they are martial artists! Spending a few seconds baffled is not an optimal decision.
But...
How do you appeal to a Kami in this situation? Do you just do the bog standard kashiwade? Should you attempt to figure out how to purify before praying? Should you give an offering? Wait, do you even have anything that you can part with as an offering?
"MEEP MEEP MEEP!" The panicked Yatagarasu throws his hands up in the air and starts running around like a headless chicken. There's no place for him to hide in time before being seen, and that will build up more backlash.
Or perhaps trigger it since the World hates you. Specifically you, somehow.
Two bows, two claps, and a final bow.
<span class="mu-g">Humble prayers from a humble girl. There breaks on me, burning upon me, a blaze from the hateful World. Deliver me to Avalon, God of the Eight Banners.</span>
When you finish your prayer, nothing seems to happen. Did it fail? The shrine looks the same as always; should there be a portal opening up? What are you going to do now? Yatagarasu monitors the pillars where he wrote the runes carefully, sweating and shaking with tension. Then suddenly you see the runes and pictures start twisting and changing. They rush up to the roof, they bury themselves into the ground, they enter the sacred inner sanctum or reappear else. You have no idea what's going on, and there's no time to think. Your older brother, Touma, grabs you by the collar of your shirt.
"Got ya! Where's the cat?!" Touma shouts at you as he manhandles you. You barely keep to your feet from the sudden dragging and pulling. He's too focused on you; he doesn't realize Yatagarasu is standing in the shrine.
Unfortunately, your little sister has the luxury of surveying the surrounding area and immediately notices the Baphomet and the strange chalk writing schizophrenically rushing around the shrine.
"What the hell is that?" Sakura stares at the goat man and moving runes—her first glimpse of the supernatural.
The World has been waiting for that moment. It pounces.
<span class="mu-r">HATE UNLEASHED! BACKLASH TRIGGERED</span>
"What?! How is that possible!? It's too early for that!" Yatagarasu shouts in disbelief.
"Fuck my life." You're good with words, but no amount of eloquence and wit can change what happens to you next.
