public channel | day 92, afternoon

[dontpokethat]

Alright, we got any priests here? Tanyuu says we need one.

[There’s a lot more he could say here, like the fact that they’re specifically looking for a Shinto priest, and that they need one so Reira can experience a proper shichi-go-san festival, and that he suggested that maybe it didn’t really matter since it’s all symbolic anyway, and Tanyuu didn’t seem to like that suggestion.

But none of that has occurred to him, so here we are.]

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[dontpokethat]

Because, well-- [Oh boy how does he explain this to an alien.] Being a priest is a specific occupation that people train for; if you just have someone pretending to be one, you don't know that they'll do it right.

[And it seems... safe to say that Amethyst would not do it right.]

[periphrasing]

Oh. I see.

[She pauses, contemplative-- and then...]

Can you teach ME how to do it?

[dontpokethat]

[Holy shit. Okay. Don't laugh. Don't laugh, she has no way of knowing any of this.]

Uh... I don't think I'm really qualified to do that. And we'd need a lot more time, anyway.

[periphrasing]

That's alright. Luckily for you, I'm a very fast learner.

[She sounds SO 100% SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.]

[dontpokethat]

I'm-- sure you are, [He is trying so hard to keep a straight face here] But, unfortunately, there's still the matter that I'm not really qualified to train a priest.