[Even as Kit accepted the items from Vincent, he found himself musing aloud.]
I wonder how effective contaminated tobacco would be in warding off evil?
[Or perhaps the other boy meant for them to smoke the cigarettes themselves. A sort of last hurrah in the face of whatever was haunting them. Kit couldn't say the idea lacked appeal, but it wasn't his style. Admitting defeat? He would rather win at all costs and take the enemy kicking and screaming down with him. If that's what it took.
After shifting off the bench so that he could kneel before it, the items were displayed before him where he'd previously been sitting. From his pocket he produced a small butterfly knife that was used to precisely cut an appropriate sized strip of paper from Vincent's notebook, and after the knife was put away again and the notebook set aside, he lifted up the pen.]
In any case, which kami's name should I write? Komokuten punishes evil, but Bishamonten is said to be chief of the Shitenno and a god of war.
[There were countless other deities whose names they could invoke, but required here was the one best suited to the task at hand: protection. Kit couldn't claim to know them all, even with how much he'd absorbed from all his reading, but those two were prominent and well-known figures in the culture for their representation of two of four cardinal directions: west and north, respectively.
Then there was the matter of writing the either name correctly. He hadn't lied when he said his handwriting was good, but that didn't mean he was well-versed in the regular use of kanji, and it didn't help that Bishamonten was called by many other names in just Japanese alone. If he made even one mistake, the entire message could read something completely different.]
no subject
I wonder how effective contaminated tobacco would be in warding off evil?
[Or perhaps the other boy meant for them to smoke the cigarettes themselves. A sort of last hurrah in the face of whatever was haunting them. Kit couldn't say the idea lacked appeal, but it wasn't his style. Admitting defeat? He would rather win at all costs and take the enemy kicking and screaming down with him. If that's what it took.
After shifting off the bench so that he could kneel before it, the items were displayed before him where he'd previously been sitting. From his pocket he produced a small butterfly knife that was used to precisely cut an appropriate sized strip of paper from Vincent's notebook, and after the knife was put away again and the notebook set aside, he lifted up the pen.]
In any case, which kami's name should I write? Komokuten punishes evil, but Bishamonten is said to be chief of the Shitenno and a god of war.
[There were countless other deities whose names they could invoke, but required here was the one best suited to the task at hand: protection. Kit couldn't claim to know them all, even with how much he'd absorbed from all his reading, but those two were prominent and well-known figures in the culture for their representation of two of four cardinal directions: west and north, respectively.
Then there was the matter of writing the either name correctly. He hadn't lied when he said his handwriting was good, but that didn't mean he was well-versed in the regular use of kanji, and it didn't help that Bishamonten was called by many other names in just Japanese alone. If he made even one mistake, the entire message could read something completely different.]