♪ Boku wa ashita mo wasurenaiyo... ♪

Happy Holidays, @babovens ! I'm your secret spirit and I'm here with some Yokai AU Terumob bonanza for you. Enjoy! And thanks to @mp100secretspirit for hosting this event once again!

Merry Christmas, @plantpretender ! I'm your Secret Spirit, and wrote you a Shigeo and Tome centric fic fitting the holiday times. Hope you enjoy!

And thank you to @mp100secretspirit for hosting this exchange! I hope to participate again next year.

Once his wrist was free, he quickly pulls his arm back, scowling a little in annoyance. What was the point of that anyway, holding him there while he tried to run from the light zombies? Though, considering that he was (mostly) powerless, perhaps sticking with Shintaro would be beneficial, for now.

“Thanks, then. Though next time, don’t grab my wrist like that. The last thing I want is to lose this,” Kyoya mutters. He lifts his arm up, pointing to the bracelet with his other hand. He sure as hell wasn’t going to mention it’s importance, however. As far as Kyoya was concerned, that little tidbit wasn’t necessary.

“In any case, lead the way.” Hiding the bracelet under the sleeve of his hoodie, he quickly checks behind him before walking towards the alleyway.

...I wish I could have fully kept my composure when Kyoya showed that bracelet to me. Sadly, I couldn’t avoid but to jerk at seeing it. Bracelet associates with command, which associates with poison, which associates with shortness of breath and and pain and death and-

“Shintaro. Calm down. That is not the same bracelet as the one you’d see in the Killing Game. You are not in that game, or in that world anymore, even.”

Yaki’s words felt like a bucket of cold water over my agitated self. Harsh, but I needed that. Like, I was fucking rubbing my right wrist like I was feeling some sort of phantom pain in it! Talk about confusing and embarrassing... Not to count that my eyes must likely be burning red right now. Hopefully my hoodie is hiding my face well enough.

[Text]: Oh god what are you gonna do

[Text]: Shintaro-ya this better be good I am looking out of my window. So is Snowball-ya. Better put on a good show or else when this is over…

Ahn is Looking outside his window. Shintaro, what are you planning?

FROM: Shintaro TO: Ahn

[Text]: Just stop whining and watch [Text]: Should be totes worth it!

Seriously, Ahn-senpai can be such an impatient nag sometimes. I would know, I can be like that too when I’m in a bad mood! Thankfully, my current state of living a small power trip boosted me well enough that I could enjoy some positivity in my mind.

Now, let’s see. Hoodie is firm in my head. A bit of sunlight hits my hands, but that shouldn’t be enough to make me lose my mind. Above me, some festival lanterns hung up, filled with coins, as one would expect.

...When you stop to think about it, the whole premise of this ‘treasure hunt’ event is kind of dumb. Surely the royal estate would have control over the manufacture of these lanterns and, consequently, of the coins put inside of them. Couldn’t they just ask for whoever made the coins to directly provide those to the Light mage?

“Not necessarily. If what makes these coins special is that they were previously imbued with Light magic, then it’d be impossible for Light aligned magic users to create more of these right now, as they have been weakened. Thus, it’s a matter of retrieving these small pockets of Light magical energy in big enough amounts that Lumen can be restored to normal.”

Hmmmm, that does make sense ‘in verse’. Of course, you and I both know that the whole point of this event is simply to have ‘characters’ like us to go on a goose chase around the city while being bothered by an external force. It is the exact same premise as the first ‘event’ that we dealt with back in that other world with Masters and Servants.

Anyway, I’d better do my show already for Ahn-senpai’s sake. The balloons are way too high for me to reach by jumping, but I have come up with a way to overcome that issue. It’s 21:00, meaning that the street lights are turned on, as it would normally be time for them to lighten the night streets. Thus... they are easy ‘food’ for me to grab.

“Lightning Rod.”

By activating the boon, the lights’ electrical energy wastes no time in surging from them towards my body. I quickly feel the way that my magical energy increases at a steady pace, as it manifests in red electricity crackles and black snakes around me. ...I think I might even be generating enough static energy to hover a few centimeters.

Nice.

But well, I’m not here just to absorb electricity. I’ve gotta release it. And I know just what spell to use next.

“Divine Trident!”

In an instant, three tridents made out of red electricity manifest by my side. Usually, they would be at a reasonable size for one to handle in the same fashion as one would do with a physical weapon, but with all the energy that I managed to gather before? These bad boys have been beefed up to be like, 2 meters long!

With a swing of my arms, the tridents shoot up, piercing several lanterns before they dematerialize. Just a few second later, I can feel several coins falling by my side. Success.